Daniel J. Smith, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Spanish

Contact
Department of Languages
Office: 508 Strode
Email: daniels@clemson.edu

Education
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Dr. Daniel J. Smith received his BA in Spanish (Bob Jones Univ.), his M.Ed. in Foreign Language Education (Univ. of Georgia), and his Ph.D. in Ibero-Romance philology and linguistics with a concentration in Spanish linguistics (Univ. of Texas at Austin). He also did graduate work at Middlebury College in Vermont. His main areas of research include linguistics, sociolinguistics, Spanish linguistics, language contact, bilingualism (especially Spanish and English bilingualism), and language acquisition (especially second language acquisition). He has researched, presented, and published on the grammatical and social forces which shape language in language contact situations and the practical implications of his and others’ research in relation to second language learning. He has presented his research at numerous national and international conferences. He has published articles in The International Journal of Bilingualism, Southwest Journal of Linguistics, Southern Journal of Linguistics, The Bilingual Review, Bilingual Research Journal, Revista Nebrija, Textos, Hipertexto, and Porta Linguarum.

Selected Professional Works

Books (Published)

Smith, D. J. 2024. Spanish and English in Small Town and Rural America: Language Contact Leading to Language Shift. Palgrave Macmillan.

Journal Articles & Book Chapters (Published)

Smith, D. J. 2023b. Number and Gender Agreement in Spanish English Noun Phrases. In A. P. Porras, L. R. Sainz (Eds.), Cercanía en la distancia e intercambio virtual (pp. 289-298). Granada: Editorial Comares.

Smith, D. J. 2023a. Children’s simultaneous acquisition of Spanish and English. In A. P. Porras, L. R. Sainz (Eds.), Cercanía en la distancia e intercambio virtual (pp. 283-288). Granada: Editorial Comares.

Smith, Daniel J. 2021. "Spanish English bilingualism of children in the United States as influenced by parents, home, and school", In Pilar Úcar Ventura (Ed.), Estudios sobre la diversidad y la globalización:Imbricaciones culturales y traductivas. (pp. 495-502). Editorial Comares: Granada, Spain.

Smith, Daniel J. 2020. "The Hidden Meaning of Codeswitches in Spanish English Conversations", Normas: Revista de estudios lingüísticos hispánicos. https://ojs.uv.es/index.php/normas/article/view/17472.

Smith, Daniel J. 2019. "Mixing Spanish and English in the Noun Phrase", American Language Journal. Autumn 2019, vol. 3. no. 2, pp. 8-15.

Smith, Daniel J. 2017. "Spanish and English contact and morpheme acquisition: El contacto español inglés y la adquisición de morfemas", Normas: Revista de estudios lingüísticos hispánicos, 7(2), 297-302, https://ojs.uv.es/index.php/normas/.

Smith, Daniel J. 2016. "Social factor comparisons of noun and verb insertion patterns in Spanish and English bilingual clauses", Normas: Revista de estudios lingüísticos hispánicos, 6, 69-76, https://ojs.uv.es/index.php/normas/ .

Smith, Daniel J. 2014. "Single morpheme tendencies in Spanish English codeswitching with implications for further research on the differences between nouns and verbs", Hipertexto Online Journal, 20(summer), 150-161, http://www.utrgv.edu/hipertexto/en-us/index.htm

Smith, Daniel J. & Manuel Morales. 2013. “Second language acquisition of Spanish by morpheme type: The 4-M model”, Southern Journal of Linguistics 37(1)

Morales, Manuel & Daniel J. Smith. 2013. “Aplicación de las imágenes mentales en la enseñanza de los tiempos verbales del pretérito perfecto simple y pretérito imperfecto y en las preposiciones ‘por’ y ‘para’”, Vida Hispánica.

Smith, Daniel J. 2009. “Asymmetrical mixing patterns of Spanish and English in a new immigrant community”, Bilingual Research Journal, 32(2), 188-206.

Smith, Daniel J. 2009. “Spanish and English gender/age variation in Georgia”, Hipertexto, Univ. of Texas-Pan American, v.10(summer), 90-111.

Smith, Daniel J. 2008. “Family, friends, and language preference influence on Spanish and English use in the U.S.”, Southern Journal of Linguistics 32(2), 26-77.

Morales, Manuel & Daniel J. Smith. 2008. “Spanish learning strategies of some good language learners”, Porta Linguarum, no. 9, 167-177.

Morales, Manuel & Daniel J. Smith. 2008. “Las imágenes mentales en la adquisición de la gramática de la segunda lengua: el caso de ‘ser’ y ‘estar’ en español”, Revista Nebrija 2(3), 1- 24, http://www.nebrija.com/revista-linguistica/.

Smith, Daniel J. 2008. “An analysis of Spanish/English bilingual conversation: Marked, embedded, and alternating languages”, published online in Textos, http://www.clemson.edu/caah/languages/textos/textos.html, pp. 1-26.

Smith, Daniel J. 2007. “Spanish/English bilingual children in the Southeastern USA: Convergence and codeswitching”, The Bilingual Review 23(3), 99-108.

Smith, Daniel J. 2006. “Thresholds leading to shift: Spanish/English codeswitching and convergence in Georgia, USA”, The International Journal of Bilingualism 10(2), 207-240.

Smith, Daniel J. 2004. “Social and grammatical patterns in Spanish/English bilingualism in Georgia, USA”, Southern Journal of Linguistics 28(1/2), 1-15.

Smith, Daniel J. 2004. “Intra-speaker variation of standard and nonstandard grammatical patterns: Spanish influenced by English in Georgia”, Southwest Journal of Linguistics 23(2), 163-185.