Clinical Linguistics and Acquired Disorders (CLAD) Lab

Current Projects

• Phonological aspects of intelligibility: The functional importance to intelligibility (FITI) of phonological factors
• The FITI framework and resources 🪬
• The linguistics & impact of accentedness: The Accent Impact Index (AII) and other tools
• The AII and other work on this project ☀️

Contact Info

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

Gurevich Mini-CV | Publications | Presentations

Lab Student Members and their work

Lab Managers

• Maelynn Reish (Fall 2025 - Spring 2026)
• Cierra Adair (Summer 2025)
• Shelby Thomas (Fall 2024 - Spring 2025)
• Jeanne Waltman (Spring, Summer 2024)
• Andrew Rowe (Summer 2023 - Fall 2023)
• Jessica Shaw (Spring 2022 - Spring 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. & Aalto, D. (2024). Frequency and context prominence effects on English allophone perception: identification of /r/ and /θ/. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 55(1). https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001980

• 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, 9(3), 892–907. 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

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