Clinical Linguistics and Acquired Disorders (CLAD) Lab

Current Projects

• Phonological aspects of intelligibility: The functional importance to intelligibility (FITI) of phonological factors
• NEW: FITI clinical resources developed in the lab
• The linguistics of accentedness: Developing an Accent Impact Index and pronunciation resource

Contact Info

Science Building (SB) G67, Purdue University Fort Wayne
cladlab@pfw.edu, Gurevich faculty bio, ORCID, ResearchGate, Google Scholar

Current Research Assistants

• Summer 2024
  • Grad RA: Emmi Kosteba
  • Jeanne Waltman, Maelynn Reish, Shelby Thomas
  
  
• Spring 2024
  • Grad RA: Emmi Kosteba
  • Andrea Ponce, Jeanne Waltman, Maelynn Reish, Shelby Thomas
  
  
• Fall 2023
  • Grad RA: Emmi Kosteba
  • Andrea Ponce, Andrew Rowe, Anna Pence, Jeanne Waltman, Maelynn Reish, Shelby Thomas
  
  
• Previous academic years

Lab Managers

• Jeanne Waltman (Spring, Summer 2024)
• Andrew Rowe (Summer 2023 - Fall 2023)
• Jessica Shaw (Spring 2022 - Spring 2023)

Student Symposium Posters from Lab Members

• Wolof: a post-colonial orthography (a literature review) (Thomas, 2024)
• Developing a Protocol for Acoustic Analysis of Disordered Speech (Adair, Ponce, Rowe, Pence, Waltman, & Shaw, 2023)
• Accent Modification Intake Form (AMIF): Piloting a Pronunciation Resource (Hunt, 2023)
• The relationship between foreign accent impact and its "thickness" (Groves, 2023)

Books from the Lab:

• Treating Cognitive-Communication Disorders in Adults (2020)
• The Source®: Dementia (2022)
• Clinical Applications of Linguistics to Speech-Language Pathology (2023)

Key Research Publications from the Lab:

• Gurevich, N., & Kim, H. (2024). A hierarchical approach to efficient assessment of functional intelligibility: The modular FITI (functional importance to intelligibility) phrase list. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_PERSP-23-00247

• Gurevich, N., & Kim, H. (2023). Development of novel speech stimuli with phonetic coverage and phonemic balance. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 8(2), 424-437. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_PERSP-22-00180

• Gurevich, N., & Kim, H. (2023). The phonetics and phonology of intelligibility: The functional importance to intelligibility of speech sounds. In Clinical Applications of Linguistics to Speech-Language Pathology: A Guide for Clinicians. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003045519-8

• Gurevich, N., & Bugel, T. A. (2023). The linguistics of accentedness: How phonetics, phonology, and sociolinguistic considerations impact clinical intervention of accent modification. In Clinical Applications of Linguistics to Speech-Language Pathology: A Guide for Clinicians. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003045519-13

• Gurevich, N., & Kim, H. (2022). Examination of consonantal phonetic coverage in standard reading passages. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 7(5), 1573–1582. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_PERSP-22-00063

• Kim, H., & Gurevich, N. (2021). Positional asymmetries in consonant production and intelligibility in dysarthric speech. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 37(2), 125–142. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2021.2019312