Definition of accentology
linguistics
: the study of accentuation in language : a system of accentuation in a particular language
The book also gives a bibliography, listing key books and articles of interest to students of Serbo-Croatian accentology.— Thomas J. Butler, General Linguistics, 1972
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The first known use of accentology was in 1881
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