Cynthia Clopper is an American linguist and professor and chair of the

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department at

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. Clopper is known for her work on

dialect The term dialect (from Latin , , from the Ancient Greek word , 'discourse', from , 'through' and , 'I speak') can refer to either of two distinctly different types of linguistic phenomena: One usage refers to a variety of a language that ...

perception Perception () is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information or environment. All perception involves signals that go through the nervous system, ...

. She currently serves as co-editor of the journal ''

Language and Speech ''Language And Speech'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the fields of linguistics, experimental psychology, audiology and speech-language pathology. The journal's editors are Cynthia Clopper (Ohio State University) ...

'' and is a member of the editorial board of the ''

Journal of Phonetics The ''Journal of Phonetics'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers topics in phonetics and phonology. It was established in 1973 and appears six times a year. It is published by Elsevier and the current editor-in-chief is Taehong Cho (Ha ...

''. Clopper is currently the president of the

Association for Laboratory Phonology The Association for Laboratory Phonology is a non-profit professional society for researchers interested in the sound structure of language. It was founded to promote the scientific study of all aspects of phonetics and phonology of oral and sign l ...

Education

Clopper holds a BA in Linguistics and

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from Duke University. She received her

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in 2004 from

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, with a dissertation titled ''Linguistic Experience and the Perceptual Classification of Dialect Variation''.

References

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