Cynthia Clopper

Cynthia G. Clopper
Nationality American
Board member of President of the Association for Laboratory Phonology (2020–2022)
Academic background
Education
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/

Cynthia 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. She currently serves as co-editor of the journal Language and Speech and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Phonetics. Clopper is currently the president of the Association for Laboratory Phonology

Education

Clopper holds a BA in Linguistics and Russian from Duke University. She received her PhD in 2004 from Indiana University, with a dissertation titled Linguistic Experience and the Perceptual Classification of Dialect Variation.<ref>"Cynthia G. Clopper CV" (PDF). Ohio State University. Retrieved 2018-10-14.</ref>