Cynthia Clopper
American linguist
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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]
- Duke University (BA, 1999)
- Indiana University Bloomington (MA, 2001; PhD, 2004)
- David Pisoni
- Kenneth J. de Jong
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Board member of | President of the Association for Laboratory Phonology (2020–2022) |
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| Thesis | Linguistic Experience and the Perceptual Classification of Dialect Variation (2004) |
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| Discipline | Linguist |
Sub-discipline | Phonetics |
Main interests | Sociophonetics; prosody; speech perception |
| Website | www |
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]
