Cynthia Clopper

Cynthia G. Clopper is an American linguist and professor in 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]

Cynthia G. Clopper
Nationality	American
Board member of	President of the Association for Laboratory Phonology (2020–2022)
Academic background
Education	Duke University (BA, 1999) Indiana University Bloomington (MA, 2001; PhD, 2004)
Thesis	Linguistic Experience and the Perceptual Classification of Dialect Variation (2004)
Doctoral advisor	David Pisoni Kenneth J. de Jong
Academic work
Discipline	Linguist
Sub-discipline	Phonetics
Main interests	Sociophonetics; prosody; speech perception
Website	www.asc.ohio-state.edu/clopper.1/

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]