Important questions in phonology for me

Q1: What is phonology?

Q2: How do sounds relate to meanings?

Q3: Why do people have accents since we have the same articulatory organs?

Q4: Is it possible to communicate with animals if we knew their sound meanings?

Q5: How do phonologists contribute to human civilization?

Q6: What are the current and latest phonological studies in the world?

Q7: What are the methods that we can use in doing phonological research?

Q8: What is the whole picture of phonology history?


Overlappings between my questions and the questions in the textbook: 3 (Q. 2,3,4)