David Silva (linguist)

David James Silva
David J. Silva, January 2020
Born
TitleProvost and Academic Vice President
Academic background
Alma materHarvard University (BA)
Cornell University (MA, Ph.D.)
Thesis (1992)
Doctoral advisorJohn B. Whitman
Academic work
DisciplineLinguistics
Sub-disciplineSociophonetics & Phonology
InstitutionsUniversity of Texas at Arlington
Salem State University

David James Silva (born 1964) is an American linguist and university administrator. His phonetic, phonological, and sociolinguistic research has examined aspects of the voicing of consonants in Korean and of the vowels of the Portuguese dialect spoken in the Azores.