The FITI (Functional Importance to Intelligibility) Framework and the Importance of Phonetic Coverage

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) 2024 Annual Convention, Seattle, WA, Special Interest Group 19 (Speech Science) invited talk. In this session we offer a novel approach to eliciting speech that can be used to investigate the production and perception of consonants. We provide an overview of the functional importance to intelligibility (FITI) framework and the functional hierarchy that it embodies. We apply this new paradigm to research and clinical purposes and offer several resources that include stimuli for eliciting speech as well as tools to prioritize FITI targets.