📊 September 2024 - "Frequency and context prominence effects on English allophone perception: identification of /r/ and /θ/" accepted for the 187th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) in Nov 2024
🌐 September 2024 - "A new approach to calculating allophonic balance and functional load" accepted for the 2025 Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting
🏆 May 2024 - CLAD Lab director Naomi Gurevich recognized with the 2024 Purdue University Fort Wayne Featured Faculty for Excellence in Research Award
🏆 April 2024 - CLAD Lab honors sudent Marissa Van De Weg awarded two prizes for her Student Research Symposium poster.
📝 April 2024 - CLAD Lab receives summer 2024 funding for a Graduate Research Assistant by the Indiana Data Mine project at Purdue University Fort Wayne.
📢 April 2024 - Lab RA Shelby Thomas awarded a 2024 PFW Undergraduate Summer Research Grant for her work on "Post-colonial Orthography".
🙆🏼♀️ March 2024 - Invited by ASHA SIG 19 (Speech Science) to present on the FITI framework at ASHA 2024.
🆕 February 2024 - Added to lab site: request clinical resources (under "Current Projects", NEW).
📖 February 2024 - Accepted for publication in ASHA's Speech Science Perspectives: A hierarchical approach to efficient assessment of functional intelligibility: The modular FITI (functional importance to intelligibility) phrase list.
🎉 February 2024 - CLAD Lab collaboration to receive support from the Lilly Endowment through a grant supporting the Indiana Data Mine project at Purdue University Fort Wayne.
📝 January 2024 - Published - Groves, M. (Faculty Mentors: Gurevich, N., & Bugel, T. A.). (2024). The cross-linguistic and cross-situational association between accentedness and its impact as rated by speakers. Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research, 13 (pp. 124–125). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.7771/2158-4052.1584
🗣️ November 2023 - Lab presentation at ASHA 2023 - "Applying the FITI Framework for Prioritizing Clinical Treatment Targets" (Technical Clinical Session in Motor Speech Disorders Across the Lifespan).
📝 October 2023 - Lab undergraduate RA Anna Pence featured in a PFW's News Center article.
📖 July 2023 - FITI article selected for inclusion in a "Collection of Perspectives in Speech-Language Pathology (SIG 19)" CE course on Speech and Voice Disorders (WEBS1921901).
🎉 June 2023 - Dr. Gurevich was approved for the 2023-2024 Office of Graduate Studies funding for a Graduate Research Assistantship. Emmi Kosteba, CSD graduate student, is the lab GRA for fall 2023 - spring 2024.
📢 April 2023 - Lab RA Andrew Rowe awarded a 2023 PFW Undergraduate Summer Research Grant for his work on "Phonemic intelligibility"
📝 March 2023 - Accepted to publish in the Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research (JPUR): Makaila Groves, "The cross-linguistic and cross-situational association between accentedness and its impact as rated by speakers", faculty mentors: Naomi Gurevich (CSD) & Talia Bugel (ILCS)