Cynthia G. Clopper
Psychology · The Ohio State University
Publications
150
Citations
3,592
Est. group size
~3
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
28
Publishing since 1999
Cynthia G. Clopper studies how speech sounds vary and are perceived across different dialects and speaking styles, using acoustic measurements and listening experiments. Her work examines topics like how people adjust to unfamiliar dialects, imitate speech patterns, and produce clearer or more variable speech depending on context. Much of this research uses phonetic analysis (measuring properties of speech sounds like vowels and intonation) and perception experiments including eye-tracking.
Publication output has remained fairly steady over the past decade, with a notable increase in 2024 and continued strong activity into 2025.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Implicit and explicit imitation of rising and falling intonation contours in word shadowing
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025
- Sound symbolism in motion: Mapping human vocalizations onto human dance
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2025
- Acoustic (and non-acoustic) enhancements of naturally produced clear speech
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2025
- Effects of dialect experience on perceptual adaptation to unfamiliar dialects
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2025
- Dynamic acoustic vowel distances within and across dialects
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2024
- The Targetedness of English Schwa: Evidence from Schwa-Initial Minimal Pairs
Languages · 2024
- Perceptual adaptation to unfamiliar dialects in an eye-tracking task
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2024
- Acoustic vowel distances within and across dialects
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2024
- Perceptual adaptation to unfamiliar dialect variation
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2024
- Effects of speaking style and semantic predictability on vowel production
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2024
- Interpreting acoustic measures of imitation in word shadowing
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2024
- Second dialect acquisition and phonetic vowel reduction in the American Midwest
Journal of Phonetics · 2023
- Limited attention shifts judgments in socioindexical perception
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2023
- Effects of dialect familiarity on lexical processing dynamics
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2023
- Children’s Use of Uptalk in Narratives
Speech Prosody 2022 · 2022
- The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America×35
- Journal of Phonetics×5
- Language and Speech×4
- Speech Communication×3
- Linguistics Vanguard×2
- Ewa Jacewicz
Psychology · The Ohio State University
- Tessa Bent
Psychology · Indiana University
- Małgorzata E. Ćavar
Psychology · Indiana University
- Kelly Berkson
Psychology · Indiana University
- Kenneth J. de Jong
Psychology · Indiana University
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.
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