Questions and sub-questions in phonology

1.What do phonologists want to find
A. Synchronic dimension
Ⅰ Patterns
How can we account for common patterns in diverse languages, such as segment inventories and phonotactics?
a. Psychological representation
How is language and its parts, including words and morphemes, represented in the mind of the speaker; how is this representation accessed and used?
b. Variations in production
How can we account for the variation in the phonetic shape of these elements as a function of context and speaking style?
Why is the vocal apparatus different as a function of the age and sex of the speaker?
Ⅱ How is sound associate with meaning?
Ⅲ How is speech acquired as a first language and as a subsequent language
B. Diachronic dimension
Ⅰ How did language and speech arise or evolve in our species?
Ⅱ How and why does pronunciation change over time, thus giving rise to different dialects and languages, and different forms of the same word or morpheme in different contexts?
2. The underlying disciplines
Physics and physiology
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. Phonology in a broader context—communication science
A. Human communication
Ⅰ How can we ameliorate communication disorders?
Ⅱ 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?
B. The relation between human and non-human communication
What is the relation, if any, between human speech and non-human communication?

Important questions in phonology for me

1. What do phonologists want to find?
2. The relation between phonology and phonetics?
3. How does phonology interact with other subfields in linguistics?
4. The theoretical sciences underlying phonology?
5. Related applied sciences?
6. How to study phonology in diachronic and synchronic dimensions?
7. What kinds of methods should phonologists adopt?
8. How to apply the phonological findings to other areas?

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