Abbreviated title (ISO 4) Lang. and Speech Publisher SAGE Publications Frequency Quarterly | Discipline Linguistics Publication history 1958-present | |
Edited by Timothy Bunnell and Irene Vogel | ||
Language And Speech is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the fields of Linguistics, Experimental Psychology, Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology. The journal's editors are Michael Vitevitch (University of Kansas) and Joan Sereno (University of Kansas). It has been in publication since 1958 and is currently published by SAGE Publications.
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Scope
Language and Speech provides an international forum for communication among researchers in the disciplines that contribute to the understanding of speech and language. The journal publishes reports of original and interdisciplinary research. Language and Speech focuses on Corpus-based, experimental, and observational research, regarding spoken or written language within the domain of linguistic, psychological, or computational models.
History of the Journal
Dennis Butler Fry (1907 – 1983), Professor of Experimental Phonetics University College London (Head of Department 1958-1971), was the founding editor of L&S in 1958. The Oct-Dec 1978 issue comprises essays in his honor and includes a list of his publications.
Editors of the Journal
• Dennis Butler Fry (University College London)
• Bruno Repp (Haskins Laboratories)
• Bob Ladd & Ellen Bard (University of Edinburgh)
• Irene Vogel & Tim Bunnell (University of Delaware) (2000-2012)
• Michael Vitevitch & Joan Sereno (University of Kansas) (2013–present)
Kingston Press was the original publisher of the journal. Sage Publishers began publishing the journal in 2008.
Abstracting and indexing
Language And Speech is abstracted and indexed in, among other databases: SCOPUS, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2012 impact factor is 0.822, ranking it 19/22 in Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology | 53/160 in Linguistics | 74/83 in Psychology, Experimental.
Source: 2012 Journal Citation Reports®