About this journal

Language Learning and Development (LL&D) serves as a vehicle for interaction among the broad community of scholars and practitioners who investigate language learning, including language learning in infancy, childhood, and across the lifespan; language in both typical and atypical populations and in both native- and second-language learning. LL&D welcomes scholars who pursue diverse approaches to understanding all aspects of language acquisition, including biological, social, and cross-cultural influences, and who employ experimental, observational, ethnographic, comparative, neuroscientific, and formal methods of investigation.

The journal is multidisciplinary and seeks to examine language development in all of its many guises. Among the many issues LL&D explores are biological versus environmental factors in language development; learning in humans versus animals; learning of signed versus spoken language; computer models of learning; and how neurotechnology and visualization of the brain inform our understanding of language learning and development.

While the scope of the topics covered is broad, the journal typically does not publish papers that focus on language pedagogy (for example, the teaching of foreign languages in classroom settings, or literacy), unless the research has clearly articulated implications for the theoretical understanding of language learning. Across the range of questions investigated and methods used in the papers that appear in LL&D, a unifying characteristic is their contribution to the theoretical understanding of language learning and development.

Readership: This journal will appeal to scholars in psychology, linguistics, computer science, cognitive science, education, speech and hearing sciences/communication disorders, and anthropology.

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Books: Developmental Psychology or Psycholinguistics
Conferences: Developmental Psychology or Psycholinguistics
Join our mailing list: Developmental Psychology or Psycholinguistics

Peer Review Policy: All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and refereeing by at least two, and usually three, anonymous referees. Language Learning and Development uses a single-anonymized review process, wherein reviewers know the identity of the authors but remain anonymous themselves. reviewers are identified to authors and other reviewers only if they sign their reviews. The average length of time between submission and final decision is less than ninety days.

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FOUNDING EDITOR
Susan Goldin-Meadow - University of Chicago, US

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Toben H. Mintz - University of Southern California– Los Angeles, US

EDITORIAL BOARD

Laura Bosch - University of Barcelona, Spain
Michel DeGraff - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US
Ghislane Dehaene-Lambertz - Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique (LSCP), France
Katherine Demuth - Macquarie University, Australia
Jill DeVilliers - Smith College, US
Susan A. Gelman - University of Michigan, US
Dedre Gentner - Northwestern University, US
LouAnn Gerken - University of Arizona, US
Judith Gierut - Indiana University, US
Rebecca Gómez - University of Arizona, US
Geoffrey Hall - University of British Columbia, Canada
Jana Iverson - University of Pittsburgh, US
Carla Hudson Kam - University of British Columbia, Canada
Barbara Landau - Johns Hopkins University, US
Brian MacWhinney - Carnegie Mellon University, US
Jessica Maye - Northwestern University, US
Gary Marcus - New York University, US
Nobuo Masataka - Primate Research Institute – Kyoto, Japan
Richard Meier - University of Texas at Austin, US
James Morgan - Brown University, US
David Plaut - Carnegie Mellon University, US
David Poeppel - New York University, US
Jenny Saffran - University of Wisconsin – Madison, US
Ann Senghas - Barnard College/Columbia University, US
Dan I. Slobin - University of California at Berkeley, US
Linda Smith - Indiana University, US
Karin Stromswold - Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, US
Michael Tomasello - Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
Virginia Valian - City University of New York/Hunter College, US
Daniel Weiss - Pennsylvania State University, US
Juergen Weissenborn - University of Potsdam, Germany
Amanda Woodward - University of Chicago, US

The SLD holds an annual symposium in conjunction with the Boston University Conference on Language Development, taking place on the Thursday afternoon before BUCLD. Speakers at the SLD symposium are prominent researchers in child language who jointly offer new perspectives on a topic relevant to language learning. Previous symposia have included topics like generalization in language learning (2007), fast-mapping and slow-mapping in word learning (2008), and infant cognitive development in language acquisition (2009).

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