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.

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. In 2013, she was named a Distinguished Young Alumni honoree by the Indiana University Linguistics Department.
Clopper currently serves as co-editor of the journal Language and Speech and has served as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Phonetics and the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. She is currently the president of the Association for Laboratory Phonology.