Danielle Thomas

423 Herter Hall
Danielle Thomas received her PhD in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of Toronto and has lectured on topics related to Spanish, formal linguistics, and communication studies at universities in Canada, the US and Ghana.
Danielle’s research mainly focuses on the acquisition and use of morphosyntax in contexts of bilingualism. She is especially interested in the interplay between cognition and experience in language outcomes for different types of bilinguals, and how to account for bilingual-related variability.
Danielle came to UMass Amherst in 2017 after pursuing professional opportunities in the private sector, and so she is also interested in teaching and learning for the professions. She is involved in developing courses and programming so that students can develop bilingual professional skills, and so that the campus and non-campus community can come together to develop communicative and sociocultural understandings for both social and professional purposes.
Research Areas
Bilingualism
Language acquisition
Romance morphosyntax
Spanish phonetics
Courses Recently Taught
Spanish 311, Advanced Spanish Grammar
Spanish 312, Spanish Oral and Written Expression
Spanish 357, Spanish for the Service Professions
Spanish 465, Business Spanish
Spanish 470, General View of Hispanic Linguistics
Spanish 697 RM Research Methods in Language Acquisition
Spanish 796, Proficiency & the Psycholinguistics of Bilingualism