The Journal of Child Language is an academic journal

Academic journal

An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...

 concerned with the use of language by children. It deals with all aspects of the scientific study of language behavior in children, the principles which underlie it, and the theories which may account for it.

It publishes approximately 46 articles per year, covering various aspects of linguistics

Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....

 such as phonology

Phonology

Phonology is, broadly speaking, the subdiscipline of linguistics concerned with the sounds of language. That is, it is the systematic use of sound to encode meaning in any spoken human language, or the field of linguistics studying this use...

, phonetics

Phonetics

Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that comprises the study of the sounds of human speech, or—in the case of sign languages—the equivalent aspects of sign. It is concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds or signs : their physiological production, acoustic properties, auditory...

, morphology

Morphology (linguistics)

In linguistics, morphology is the identification, analysis and description, in a language, of the structure of morphemes and other linguistic units, such as words, affixes, parts of speech, intonation/stress, or implied context...

, syntax

Syntax

In linguistics, syntax is the study of the principles and rules for constructing phrases and sentences in natural languages....

, vocabulary

Vocabulary

A person's vocabulary is the set of words within a language that are familiar to that person. A vocabulary usually develops with age, and serves as a useful and fundamental tool for communication and acquiring knowledge...

, semantics

Semantics

Semantics is the study of meaning. It focuses on the relation between signifiers, such as words, phrases, signs and symbols, and what they stand for, their denotata....

, pragmatics

Pragmatics

Pragmatics is a subfield of linguistics which studies the ways in which context contributes to meaning. Pragmatics encompasses speech act theory, conversational implicature, talk in interaction and other approaches to language behavior in philosophy, sociology, and linguistics. It studies how the...

, and sociolinguistics

Sociolinguistics

Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the effect of any and all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on the way language is used, and the effects of language use on society...

.

Its current editors are Edith L. Bavin from La Trobe University

La Trobe University

La Trobe University is a multi-campus university in Victoria, Australia. It was established in 1964 by an Act of Parliament to become the third oldest university in the state of Victoria. The main campus of La Trobe is located in the Melbourne suburb of Bundoora; two other major campuses are...

 in Australia and Heike Behrens from University of Basel

University of Basel

The University of Basel is located in Basel, Switzerland, and is considered to be one of leading universities in the country...

 in Switzerland. It was first published in 1974 with its founding editor, David Crystal from Bangor University

Bangor University

Bangor University is a university based in the city of Bangor in the county of Gwynedd in North Wales-United Kingdom.It was officially known for most of its history as the University College of North Wales...

 in Wales, UK.

Journal of Child Language is currently published by Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

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 and is the official journal of the International Association for the Study of Child Language

International Association for the Study of Child Language

The International Association for the Study of Child Language is an academic society for first language acquisition researchers. It was founded in 1970 by a group of prominent language acquisition researchers to promote international and interdisciplinary cooperation in the study of child language...

. (IASCL)

Index

• Arts & Humanities Citation Index
• Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
• SCOPUS
  Scopus
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• EBSCOhost
• MLA International Bibliography
• Social Sciences Citation Index

Notable articles

• "The child language data exchange system" - B. MacWhinney and C. Snow
• "Achievements and Antecedents of Labelling" - A. Ninio and J. Bruner
• "Bilingual Signed and Spoken Language Acquisition from Birth: Implications for the Mechanisms underlying early Bilingual Language Acquisition " - Laura Ann Petitto, Marina Katerelos et al.
• "Child-directed Speech: Relation to Socioeconomic Status, Knowledge of Child Development and Child Vocabulary Skill" - Meredith L. Rowe

External links

• Access All issues from Volume 1, issue 1
• International Association for the Study of Child Language