Cynthia Clopper

Cynthia G. Clopper
Board member ofPresident of the Association for Laboratory Phonology (2020–2022)
Academic background
Education
ThesisLinguistic Experience and the Perceptual Classification of Dialect Variation (2004)
Doctoral advisor
  • David Pisoni
  • Kenneth J. de Jong
Academic work
DisciplineLinguist
Sub-disciplinePhonetics
Main interestsSociophonetics; prosody; speech perception
Websitewww.asc.ohio-state.edu/clopper.1/

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]

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

  1. ^ https://linguistics.osu.edu/people/clopper.1
  2. ^ "Cynthia Clopper". scholar.google.com. Retrieved March 8, 2024.
  3. ^ "Ph.D.s defended since 1956" (PDF). Indiana University Linguistics Department. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
  4. ^ "Distinguished Alumni". Department of Linguistics. Retrieved March 8, 2024.
  5. ^ "Language and Speech". SAGE Publications Inc. Retrieved October 15, 2018.
  6. ^ "Journal of Phonetics Editorial Board". Elsevier.com. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
  7. ^ "Cynthia G. Clopper". www.asc.ohio-state.edu. Retrieved July 5, 2024.
  8. ^ "Executive Council | labphon".