Cynthia Clopper
Cynthia 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. She currently serves as co-editor of the journal Language and Speech and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Phonetics. Clopper is currently the vice president of the Association for Laboratory Phonology until 2020, whereupon she will assume the role of president.Education
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.
