Cynthia Clopper
Ohio State University
Cynthia Clopper is an Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Ohio State University and a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America. She received a B.A. in Linguistics and Russian from Duke University, an M.A. in Linguistics from Indiana University, and a Ph.D. in Linguistics and Cognitive Science from Indiana University. She spent one year as a postdoctoral researcher in Psychology at Indiana University and one year as a postdoctoral fellow in Linguistics at Northwestern University, both funded by the National Institutes of Health, before joining the faculty at Ohio State. Her major areas of expertise are phonetics, speech perception, sociophonetics, and laboratory phonology. Dr. Clopper’s current research projects examine the effects of geographic mobility and linguistic experience on cross-dialect lexical processing, the relationships between linguistic and indexical sources of variation in speech processing, and native and non-native accent perception by children and adults. She currently serves as co-Editor-in-Chief of Language and Speech and on the Editorial Board of Journal of Phonetics.