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Name of the University : The Tamilnadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University
Degree : MASTER OF AUDIOLOGY AND SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY
Subject Code/Name : 3003/Speech Science & Production
Year : I
Paper : III
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Speech Science & Production :

Sub. Code: 3003
MASTER OF AUDIOLOGY AND SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY
(MASLP) DEGREE EXAMINATION

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PAPER III : SPEECH SCIENCE AND PRODUCTION
Q.P. Code : 433003
Time : 3 hours
Maximum : 100 marks
(180 Min)
Answer ALL questions in the same order. :
I. Elaborate on :
1. Describe acoustic theory of speech production
2. Explain different vibratory modes of vocal fold and describe single mass model of vocal fold vibration
II. Write notes on :
1. Explain the physiology of respiration
2. Write short note on forensic speech analysis
3. Describe neuromotor mechanism of speech system
4. Explain the terms Formants, Antiformants and Nasal murmur
5. Write short note on development of vocal fold
6. Explain intensity changing mechanism
7. Write short note on acoustic cues of vowels
8. Explain the application of spectrograms
9. Write short note on objective measurement of airflow
10. Write short note on acoustic characteristics of laughter

Sub. Code: 3003
Answer ALL questions in the same order. :
I. Elaborate on :
1. Describe in detail the objective assessment of respiratory, phonatory, articulatory and resonatory systems of speech production
2. Discuss the studies on Infant cry analysis and explain the spectrographic pattern of cry in clinical population
II. Write notes on :
1. Define lung volumes and lung capacities
2. Write short note on speaker recognition system
3. Explain the physiology of muscles of larynx
4. Explain the brain areas involved in speech production
5. Define mean flow rate, S/Z ratio and phonation quotient
6. Describe vibratory modes of vocal folds
7. Write short note on acoustic features of affricates
8. Explain two mass model of vocal fold vibration
9. Explain using spectrographic patterns the place of articulation cues for stop consonants
10. Write short note on spirometer and its clinical application

OCTOBER 2012 :
Answer ALL questions in the same order. :
I. Elaborate on :
1. The source filter theory of speech production.
2. Neuro motor mechanism of the articulatory, phonatory and respiratory system.
II. Write Notes on :
1. Checking action.
2. Variations in breathing patterns.
3. Describe the anatomy, physiology and functions of the thyroartenoid muscle.
4. Explain the prephonation phase.
5. Relation between subglottal pressure and pitch.
6. Mechanism of falsetto.
7. Speaker recognition.
8. Aerodynamics of stops.
9. Spectrographic cues for vowels.
10. Analysis of laughter.

APRIL 2013 :
I. Elaborate on: (2×20=40)
1. Pitch and intensity changing mechanism.
2. Application of spectrography in basic and applied research.
II. Write notes on : (10X6=60)
1. Measurement of subglottal pressure during speech.
2. Muscles of larynx.
3. Explain bernoulli’s effect and its application to phonation.
4. Transglottal pressure differential.
5. Development of larynx.
6. Nervous control for respiration.
7. Infant cry analysis.
8. Spectrographic cues for stops.
9. Speech analysis in forensic sciences.
10.Aerodynamics of nasals.

Speech & Language Processing System :
I. Elaborate on :
1. Is sentence processing parallel or serial? Justify your answer with research evidence.
2. Explain in detail the various models of visual word recognition.
II. Write notes on :
1. Acoustic cues for the perception of nasals.
2. Logogen model of spoken word recognition and its limitations.
3. Prosodic bootstrapping hypothesis.
4. Processing of anaphora.
5. Acoustic cues for the POA of stop consonants.
6. Explain any one interactive model of spoken word recognition.
7. Infants do not require prior experience to discriminate speech sounds. Justify with research evidence.
8. Cues for the perception of diphthongs.
9. Do we make use of semantic information to resolve syntactic ambiguities? Justify your answer with research evidence.
10. What is the role of memory in speech processing? Justify with research evidence.

Sub. Code : 3004
Answer ALL questions in the same order :
I. Elaborate on :
1. The stages of word recognition
2. The factors affecting consonant & vowel perception.
II. Write notes on :
1. Sentence comprehension
2. Cross model priming.
3. Factors affecting lexical decision
4. Effect of co-articulation in phonetic perception
5. Neighborhood activation model.
6. Processing of language morphology
7. Acoustic properties of consonants
8. Word monitoring
9. Memory & attention in speech and language processing
10. Speech perception in noise