2008年5月15日 星期四

Questions and sub-questions in phonology

What are phonological universals?
How can we account for common patterns in diverse languages, such as segment inventories and phonotactics?
What is the traditional phonology?
How phonology involve into its current state?
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?
What new methods can we use in phonology?
How language changes occur?
What’s the way phonology going to be changed?
What factors contribute to those phonological changes?
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?
Where do phonologists acquire information?
What other fields can phonology apply?
How phonology functions in other fields?

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