| Cynthia G. Clopper | |
| Nationality: | American |
| Boards: | President of the Association for Laboratory Phonology (2020–2022) |
| Thesis Title: | Linguistic Experience and the Perceptual Classification of Dialect Variation |
| Thesis Url: | https://www.asc.ohio-state.edu/clopper.1/clopper_thesis.pdf |
| Thesis Year: | 2004 |
| Discipline: | Linguist |
| Sub Discipline: | Phonetics |
| Main Interests: | Sociophonetics; prosody; speech perception |
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]
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.[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]