Research focus

My primary goal is to use our understanding of language variation and multilingual language acquisition to better understand developmental speech and language impairments and to provide better clinical services to all individuals with communication disorders through linguistically informed assessment and intervention tools and approaches, supporting the SLP clinical degree program.

Current and past courses taught

• CSD:2110 Phonetics: Theory and Applications
• CSD:5258 Multilingualism in CSD
• CSD:5282 Clinical Phonology and Speech Sound Disorders

Scholarly profile and resources

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Selected publications

• Hilker, C. Uka-Rexha, A., Kozmaqi, M., Çakmaku, A., Krasniqi, A., & Combiths, P. (2025). Local Reference Data for the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives in Pristina, Kosovo. ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 66, 55–72. https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.66.2025.891
• Combiths, P., Escobedo, A., Barlow, J.A., Pruitt-Lord, S. (2023). Complexity and cross-linguistic transfer in intervention for Spanish-English bilingual children with speech sound disorder. Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech, 4(3), 234-270. https://doi.org/10.1558/jmbs.23445
• Combiths, P., Pruitt-Lord, S., Escobedo, A., & Barlow J.A. (2022). Phonological complexity in intervention for Spanish-speaking children with speech sound disorder. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 36(2-3), 219-240. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2021.1936186
• Combiths, P., Amberg, R., Hedlund, G., Rose, Y. & Barlow, J.A. (2022). Automated phonological analysis and treatment target selection using AutoPATT. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 36(2-3), 203-218. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2021.1896782
• Combiths, P., Barlow, J., & Sanchez, E., (2019). Quantifying phonological knowledge in children with phonological disorder. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 33(10–11), 885–898. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2019.1584247
• Combiths, P., Barlow, J.A., Richard, J.T., & Pruitt-Lord, S.L. (2019). Treatment targets for co-occurring speech-language impairment: A case study. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 4(2), 240–256. https://doi.org/10.1044/2019_PERS-SIG1-2018-0013