Important Questions in Phonology for Me

8 questions in our textbook
1. How is language and its parts, including words and morphemes, represented in the mind of the speaker; how is this representation accessed and used? How can we account for the variation in the phonetic shape of these elements as a function of context and speaking style?
2. How, physically and physiologically, does speech work---the phonetic mechanisms of speech production and perception, including the structures and units it is built on?
3. Why and how does pronunciation change over time, thus giving rise to different dialects and language and different forms of the same word or morpheme in different contexts? How can we account for common patterns in diverse languages, such as segment inventories and phonotactics?
4. How can we ameliorate communication disorders?
5. How can the functions of speech be enhanced and amplified, for example, to give permanency to ephemeral speech, to permit communication over great distances, and to permit communication with machines using speech?
6. How is speech acquired as a first language and as a subsequent language?
7. How is sound associated with meaning?
8. How did language and speech arise or evolve in our species? Why is the vocal apparatus different as a function of the age and sex of the speaker? What is the relation, if any, between human speech and non-human communication?

My 8 questions ( 1.2.3 for the questions in our textbook, (1)(2)(3) for my questions)
(1) What are phonological universals?
1. 2. 3. 6. 7. are relevant to my question (1) because
Asking questions 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 in our textbook enables one to draw inference of language universal.
8. is relevant to my question (1) because
Language universal could be a sub-question of 8.

(2) What is language disorder?
4 is relevant to (2) because
One should ask (2) first before move to 4.

(3) How phonology involve into its current state?
All questions are relevant to (3) because
The changes of phonology have much to do with our pursuing answers of all questions in our textbook.

(this one is relevant to (8))

(4) What new methods can we use in phonology?
This one is relevant to all questions because
New method could be applied to get those answers.
(It is also relevant to (7))

(5) What factors contribute to phonological changes?
This one is relevant to 1. 2. 3.

(6) Where do phonologists acquire information?

(7) What other field can phonology apply?
This one is relevant to all questions because
New method could be applied to get those answers.
(It is also relevant to (4))

(8) What’s the way phonology going to be changed?
All questions are relevant to (8) because
The changes of phonology have much to do with our pursuing answers of all questions in our textbook.
(this one is relevant to (3))


Questions (1) (2) (3) (5) (8) overlap those in our textbook. (4) and (7) are relevant to questions in our textbook, but they are not overlapping.