Phonology

noun A person who studies the physical and acoustic characteristics of speech sounds

• The phonologist conducted research on the phonetic features of various languages.
• My friend is studying to become a phonologist and loves analyzing speech sounds.
• I heard that phonologists are like language detectives, always deciphering the sounds people make.
• The phonologist's ears were finely tuned to pick up even the subtlest nuances in pronunciation.

noun a person who studies accents, particularly in linguistics

• Accentologists study the phonetic and phonological properties of accents in different languages.
• I heard accentologists can determine where someone is from based on their accent.
• Those accentologists are like accent detectives, figuring out where people come from just by how they talk.
• To accentologists, accents are like fingerprints, each one unique and telling a story.