Publications

Cynthia G. Clopper

 

Journal Articles

Clopper, C. G. (in press). Dialect interference in lexical processing: Effects of familiarity and social stereotypes. Phonetica.

Clopper, C. G., & Walker, A. (in press). Effects of lexical competition and dialect exposure on phonological priming. Language and Speech.

McCullough, E. A., & Clopper, C. G. (2016). Perceptual subcategories within non-native English. Journal of Phonetics, 55, 19-37.

Burdin, R. S., Phillips-Bourass, S., Turnbull, R., Yasavul, M., Clopper, C. G., & Tonhauser, J. (2015). Variation in the prosody of focus in head- and head/edge-prominence languages. Lingua, 165, 254-276.

Clopper, C. G., & Smiljanic, R. (2015). Regional variation in temporal organization in American English. Journal of Phonetics, 49, 1-15.

Turnbull, R., Burdin, R. S., Clopper, C. G., & Tonhauser, J. (2015). Contextual predictability and the prosodic realisation of focus: A cross-linguistic comparison. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 30, 1061-1076.

Wagner, L., Speer, S. R., Moore, L. C., McCullough, E. A., Ito, K., Clopper, C. G., & Campbell-Kibler, K. (2015). Linguistics in a science museum: Integrating research, teaching, and outreach at the Language Sciences Research Lab. Language and Linguistics Compass, 9, 420-431.

Clopper, C. G. (2014). Sound change in the individual: Effects of exposure on cross-dialect speech processing. Laboratory Phonology, 5, 69-90.

Clopper, C. G., & Tamati, T. N. (2014). Effects of local lexical competition and regional dialect on vowel production. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 136, 1-4.

      Clopper, C. G., & Tamati, T. N. (2015). Erratum: Effects of local lexical competition and regional dialect on vowel production. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 138, 570.

Wagner, L., Clopper, C. G., & Pate, J. (2014). ChildrenÕs perception of dialect variation. Journal of Child Language, 41, 1062-1084.

Clopper, C. G., Rohrbeck, K. L., & Wagner, L. (2013). Perception of talker age by young adults with high-functioning autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 43, 134-146.

Clopper, C. G., & Tonhauser, J. (2013). The prosody of focus in Paraguayan Guaran’. International Journal of American Linguistics, 79, 219-251.

Oder, A. L., Clopper, C. G., & Ferguson, S. H. (2013). Effects of dialect on vowel acoustics and intelligibility. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 43, 23-35.

Clopper, C. G. (2012). Effects of dialect variation on the semantic predictability benefit. Language and Cognitive Processes, 27, 1002-1020.

Clopper, C. G., Rohrbeck, K. L., & Wagner, L. (2012). Perception of dialect variation by young adults with high-functioning autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 42, 740-754.

Clopper, C. G., & Smiljanic, R. (2011). Effects of gender and regional dialect on prosodic patterns in American English. Journal of Phonetics, 39, 237-245.

Bradlow, A., Clopper, C., Smiljanic, R., & Walter, M. A. (2010). A perceptual similarity space for languages: Evidence from five native language listener groups. Speech Communication, 52, 930-942.

Clopper, C. G., Pierrehumbert, J. B., & Tamati, T. N. (2010). Lexical neighborhoods and phonological confusability in cross-dialect word recognition in noise. Laboratory Phonology, 1, 65-92.

Clopper, C. G. (2009). Computational methods for normalizing acoustic vowel data for talker differences. Language and Linguistics Compass, 3, 1430-1442.

Clopper, C. G., & Bradlow, A. R. (2009). Free classification of American English dialects by native and non-native listeners. Journal of Phonetics, 37, 436-451.

Clopper, C. G. (2008). Auditory free classification: Methods and analysis. Behavior Research Methods, 40, 575-581.

Clopper, C. G., & Bradlow, A. R. (2008). Perception of dialect variation in noise: Intelligibility and classification. Language and Speech, 51, 175-198.

Clopper, C. G., & Pierrehumbert, J. B. (2008). Effects of semantic predictability and regional dialect on vowel space reduction. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 124, 1682-1688.

Clopper, C. G., & Pisoni, D. B. (2007). Free classification of regional dialects of American English. Journal of Phonetics, 35, 421-438.

Clopper, C. G., Levi, S. V., & Pisoni, D. B. (2006). Perceptual similarity of regional varieties of American English. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 119, 566-574.

Clopper, C. G., & Paolillo, J. C. (2006). North American English vowels: A factor analytic perspective. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 21, 445-462.

Clopper, C. G., & Pisoni, D. B. (2006). Effects of region of origin and geographic mobility on perceptual dialect categorization. Language Variation and Change, 18, 193-221.

Clopper, C. G., & Pisoni, D. B. (2006). The Nationwide Speech Project: A new corpus of American English dialects. Speech Communication, 48, 633-644.

Clopper, C. G., Pisoni, D. B., & Tierney, A. T. (2006). Effects of open-set and closed-set task demands on spoken word recognition. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 17, 331-349.

Clopper, C. G., Conrey, B. L., & Pisoni, D. B. (2005). Effects of talker gender on dialect categorization. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 24, 182-206.

Clopper, C. G., Pisoni, D. B., & de Jong, K. (2005). Acoustic characteristics of the vowel systems of six regional varieties of American English. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 118, 1661-1676.

Clopper, C. G., & Pisoni, D. B. (2004). Effects of talker variability on perceptual learning of dialects. Language and Speech, 47, 207-239.

Clopper, C. G., & Pisoni, D. B. (2004). Homebodies and army brats: Some effects of early linguistic experience and residential history on dialect categorization. Language Variation and Change, 16, 31-48.

Clopper, C. G., & Pisoni, D. B. (2004). Some acoustic cues for the perceptual categorization of American English regional dialects. Journal of Phonetics, 32, 111-140.

Carter, A. K., & Clopper, C. G. (2002). Prosodic effects on word reduction. Language and Speech, 45, 321-353.

 

Book Chapters

Clopper, C. G., & Turnbull, R. (forthcoming). Exploring variation in phonetic reduction: Linguistic, social, and cognitive factors. In F. Cangemi, M. Clayards, O. Niebuhr, B. Schuppler, & M. Zellers (Eds.), Rethinking Reduction. de Gruyter.

Clopper, C. G. (2013). Experiments. In C. Mallinson, B. Childs, & G. Van Herk (Eds.), Data Collection in Sociolinguistics: Methods and Applications (pp. 151-161). London: Routledge.

Clopper, C. G. (2012). Clustering and classification methods. In A. C. Cohn, C. Fougeron, & M. K. Huffman (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Laboratory Phonology (pp. 678-691). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Clopper, C. G. (2011). Checking for reliability. In M. Di Paolo & M. Yaeger-Dror (Eds.), Sociophonetics: A StudentÕs Guide (pp. 188-197). London: Routledge.

Clopper, C. G., Hay, J., & Plichta, B. (2011). Experimental speech perception and perceptual dialectology. In M. Di Paolo & M. Yaeger-Dror (Eds.), Sociophonetics: A StudentÕs Guide (pp. 149-162). London: Routledge.

Clopper, C. G. (2010). Phonetic detail, linguistic experience, and the classification of regional language varieties in the United States. In D. R. Preston & N. Niedzielski (Eds.), A Reader in Sociophonetics (pp. 203-222). New York: De Gruyter Mouton.

Clopper, C. G., & Pisoni, D. B. (2005). Perception of dialect variation. In D. B. Pisoni & R. E. Remez (Eds.), Handbook of Speech Perception (pp. 313-337). Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Clopper, C. G., & Pisoni, D. B. (2005). Speech perception, hearing impairment, and linguistic variation. In M. J. Ball (Ed.), Clinical Sociolinguistics (pp. 207-218). Malden, MA: Blackwell.

 

Conference Proceedings

Prechtel, C., & Clopper, C. G. (2016). Uptalk in Midwestern American English. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 8.

Burdin, R. S., & Clopper, C. G. (2015). Phonetic reduction, vowel duration, and prosodic structure. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.

Burdin, R. S., Turnbull, R., & Clopper, C. G. (2015). Interactions among lexical and discourse characteristics in vowel production. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 22(060005).

Luthern, E., & Clopper, C. G. (2015). Variation in glottalization at prosodic boundaries in clear and plain lab speech. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.

Melvin, S., & Clopper, C. G. (2015). Gender variation in creaky voice and fundamental frequency. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.

Clopper, C. G. (2013). Modeling multi-level factors using linear mixed effects. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 19(060116).

Turnbull, R., & Clopper, C. G. (2013). Effects of semantic predictability and dialect variation on vowel production in clear and plain lab speech. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 19(060028).

Phillips, S., and Clopper, C. G. (2011). Perceived imitation of regional dialects. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 12(060002).

Clopper, C. G., & Tonhauser, J. (2011). On the prosodic coding of focus in Paraguayan Guaran’. In M. B. Washburn, K. McKinney-Bock, E. Varis, A. Sawyer, & B. Tomaszewicz (Eds.), Proceedings of the 28th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (pp. 249-257). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Pierrehumbert, J. B., & Clopper, C. G. (2010). What is LabPhon? And where is it going? In C. Fougeron, B. KŸhnert, M. DÕImperio, & N. VallŽe (Eds.), Laboratory Phonology 10 (pp. 113-129). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

Clopper, C. G., & Pate, J. K. (2008). Effects of talker and token variability on perceptual learning of dialect categories. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 5(060002).

Bradlow, A. R., Clopper, C. G., & Smiljanic, R. (2007). A perceptual similarity space for languages. Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1373-1376.

Clopper, C. G., & Bradlow, A. R. (2007). Native and non-native perceptual dialect similarity spaces. Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 665-668.

Clopper, C. G., & Pisoni, D. B. (2004). Perceptual dialect categorization by an adult cochlear implant user: A case study. Proceedings of the VIII International Cochlear Implant Conference, International Congress Series, 1273, 235-238.

Clopper, C. G. (2002). A ternary scales approach to phonological chain shifts: An example from Nzema. In M. Andronis, E. Debenport, A. Pycha, & K. Yoshimura (Eds.), Chicago Linguistic Society 38-1 (pp. 159-173). Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.