Experimental Approaches to Phonology---Preface

The source of this book"Methods in Phonology"
John J. OhalaJohn J. Ohala's homepage: http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/phonlab/users/ohala/index3.html
Content of this book
Focus 1: experimental methods
To test phonological hypothesis:
Speakers’ knowledge and hears’ sound system
Acquisition of sound system
Laws of sound system
Methods are not static
Recent Changes
New experimental techniques
Increased use
Reasons of increasingly use of experimental methods
Reason 1: increasingly diverse question
Reason 2: new opportunities
New technology and database open up
Reason 3: biological, social, and cognitive sciences are required
Reason 4: Modeling in Phonology and relevant techniques
Focus 2: phonological findings through experimental techniques
Organization of this book
Part 1: Theory and background
Part 2: Phonological universals
Part 3: Phonological factors
Part 4: Phonological contrast
Part 5: Phonological knowledge
Contributions
Methods & Core Phonological issues
Traditional field Methods (Hyman)
Psycholinguistic Methods
Corpus-based Methods
Aerodynamic and Articulatory Methods
Acoustic-perceptual Methods
Statistical and Modeling Methods
The Contributions of these Methods
New Theoretical Perspectives
Maturity of the Discipline
Thriving Nature of the Discipline