Cynthia Clopper

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.

Career
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. 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.