Journal of Child Language

*Journal of Child Language*
Publication details

Discipline	Linguistics
Language	English
Edited by	Heike Behrens
History	1974-present
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Frequency	5/year
Impact factor	1.505 (2010)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4	J. Child Lang.
Indexing
ISSN	0305-0009 (print) 1469-7602 (web)
LCCN	76649848
OCLC no.	485704851
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

The Journal of Child Language is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering all aspects of the scientific study of language behavior in children, the principles which underlie it, and the theories which may account for it. This includes various aspects of linguistics such as phonology, phonetics, morphology, syntax, vocabulary, semantics, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics. Its editor-in-chief is Heike Behrens (University of Basel). It was established in 1974 with David Crystal (Bangor University) as its founding editor. The journal is published by Cambridge University Press and is the official journal of the International Association for the Study of Child Language.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal had a 2013 impact factor of 1.505 ranking it 20th out of 169 journals in the category "Area Studies".^[1]

References

^ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Area Studies". 2013 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2014.

External links

Official website

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Sociolinguistics	International Journal of the Sociology of Language Journal of Sociolinguistics Language in Society Multilingua
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Semantics	Journal of Semantics
Language policy	Language Problems and Language Planning Mikroglottika
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