Daniel J. Olson

CLA Profile 

Professor // Spanish and Portuguese // SLC
Professor // Linguistics // SIS

Books & Edited Volumes

• Olson, D. J., Sturm, J. L., Dmitrieva, O., & Levis, J. (Eds). (2024). Proceedings of the 14^th Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference. Purdue University. 

Referred Journal Articles

• Olson, D. J. & Czerwionka, L. (2024).  The Complementary Principle and language dominance: Mapping language–domain relationships of Spanish–English bilinguals. Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication. 1–40.
• Olson, D. J. (2024). Bilingual language experience and code-switching acceptability judgements: A constructive replication of Stadthagen-González et al. (2019), Balam et al. (2020), and Stadthagen-González et al. (2018). International Journal of Bilingualism, 1–34.
• Olson, D. J. & Seo, Y. (2024). Code-switching experience as a mitigating factor for cross-linguistic phonetic interference. Journal of Phonetics, 107, 101356.
• Seo, Y., & Olson, D. J. (2024). Phonetic shifts in bilingual vowels: Evidence from intersentential and intrasentential code-switching. International Journal of Bilingualism, 1–16.
• Olson, D. J. (2024). Bilingual language dominance and code-switching patterns. Heritage Language Journal, 21(1), 1–29. 
• Olson, D. J. (2024). The Bilingual Code-Switching Profile (BCSP): Assessing the reliability and validity of the BCSP questionnaire. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 14(3), 400–433. 
• Zhou, A., & Olson, D. J. (2023). Quantitative methods for analyzing second language lexical tone production. Languages, 8, 209. 
• Olson, D. J. (2023). A systematic review of proficiency assessment methods in bilingualism research. International Journal of Bilingualism, 28(2), 163–187. 
• Olson, D. J. (2023). Measuring language dominance: An examination of the reliability of the Bilingual Language Profile. Language Testing, 40(3), 521–547.

Public Facing Scholarship (Not Peer Reviewed)

• Olson, D. J. (2025). Les Etats-Unis, un pays multilingue malgré lui. [The United States, a multilingual nation in spite of itself]. Le Temps. 
• Olson, D. J. (2025). Making English the official U.S. language can’t erase the fact that the U.S. has millions of Spanish speakers and a long multilingual history. The Conversation. 
• Olson, D. J. (2025). Trump just made English the only official language. Here’s why that’s un-American. U.S. News & World Report. 
• Olson, D. J. (2024). Multilingualism is an American tradition. So is backlash to it. Time Magazine – Made by History.