Cynthia Clopper

American linguist

Duke University (BA, 1999)
Indiana University Bloomington (MA, 2001; PhD, 2004)

ThesisLinguistic Experience and the Perceptual Classification of Dialect Variation (2004)Doctoral advisor

David Pisoni
Kenneth J. de Jong

Academic workDisciplineLinguistSub-disciplinePhoneticsMain interestsSociophonetics; prosody; speech perception Websitewww.asc.ohio-state.edu/clopper.1/

Cynthia G. Clopper is an American linguist and professor and chair of the linguistics department at Ohio State University. Clopper is known for her work on dialect perception, including cross-dialect lexical processing and regional prosodic variation in American English.^[1]^[2]

Career

Clopper holds a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics and Russian from Duke University. She received her PhD in 2004 from Indiana University Bloomington, with a dissertation titled Linguistic Experience and the Perceptual Classification of Dialect Variation.^[3] In 2013, she was named a Distinguished Young Alumni honoree by the Indiana University Linguistics Department.^[4]

Clopper currently serves as co-editor of the journal Language and Speech^[5] and has served as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Phonetics ^[6] and the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.^[7] She is currently the president of the Association for Laboratory Phonology.^[8]

References

^ https://linguistics.osu.edu/people/clopper.1
^ "Cynthia Clopper". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
^ "Ph.D.s defended since 1956" (PDF). Indiana University Linguistics Department. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
^ "Distinguished Alumni". Department of Linguistics. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
^ "Language and Speech". SAGE Publications Inc. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
^ "Journal of Phonetics Editorial Board". Elsevier.com. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
^ "Cynthia G. Clopper". www.asc.ohio-state.edu. Retrieved 2024-07-05.
^ "Executive Council | labphon".