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1-Phonology studies the phonemic system of a language. 

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2-The approaches to the phoneme have seen it as a psychological entity, as a family of sounds and as a functional unit

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3-The mentalist view regards the phoneme as an ideal sound at which the speaker aims.

• T

• F

4-The physical view regards the phoneme as a functional unit.

• T

• F

5-The functional view regards the phoneme as a family of sounds.

• T

• F

6-The phoneme is a minimal distinctive unit of sound in a language.

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• F

7-Phone is a term used in phonetics to refer to the smallest perceptible discrete segment of sound in a stream of speech

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8-A phonetic unit or a phonetic segment is called a phone.

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• F

9-The allophones of a phoneme are conerete realizations of that phoneme. The phoneme is an abstract unit

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• F

10-A pheneme can have several different physical forms or allophones.

• T

• F