Aims & Scope

Aims

Languages (ISSN 2226-471X) is an international, open access scholarly journal whose central concern is the promotion of understanding of the world’s languages in all its diversity.

Languages aims to present discussions and developments of multidisciplinary research and thereby generating broad and practical applications for the study of languages in the current world. Languages welcomes contributions from scholars and researchers working within the framework of any theoretical approach within linguistics. Languages publishes articles, reviews, commentaries, and communications without restrictions on the maximum length of the submissions. The working language is English; however, research on all languages is welcome.

Scope

We welcome manuscripts in a wide range of areas, including general, historical, theoretical, and applied linguistics. Additionally, the journal covers the subfields of linguistics listed below (proposals for topics not listed here can be discussed with the Editor-in-Chief (languages@mdpi.com)):

• Descriptive and theoretical linguistics
• Grammar
• Cognitive linguistics, construction grammar
• Generative linguistics
• Usage-based approaches to language learning/acquisition
• Stochastic grammar
• Innovative methods in descriptive linguistics
• Relations to psychology, anthropology and other social sciences
• Applied linguistics
• Academic achievement, language assessment, language testing, second and third language learning, forensic linguistics, vocabulary studies, computer-assisted language learning
• Language technology using linguistics (but no “black box” applications)
• Bi/multilingualism
• Code-switching and code-mixing, crosslinguistic influence, language contact, language processing in bi/multilinguals, transfer, translanguaging
• Clinical linguistics
• Aphasia, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), cognitive communication disorders, stuttering, Parkinson’s disease
• Communication sciences and disorders
• Pediatric speech–language–hearing pathology, acquired speech–language–hearing pathology, diagnosis and evaluation of communication disorders, intervention for communication disorders
• Endangered languages
• Language documentation and revitalization, language policy, language death
• First, second and third language acquisition
• Morphological, syntactic, phonological and vocabulary development in monolinguals and multilinguals, sign languages, typical and atypical language development
• Computational models of language learning
• Language attrition
• Heritage languages
• Development of morphology, phonetics, phonology, syntax and vocabulary in heritage speakers
• Historical Linguistics (aka Diachronic Linguistics)
• Historical reconstruction, phylogenetic inference of genealogical relations, language contact and areal linguistics
• Language typology
• Crosslinguistic variation, quantitative analyses of typology
• Psycholinguistics
• Cognition (and relation to general cognition), cognitive decline, language in the elderly, language processing, computational modeling, language and thought, linguistic relativity, neurolinguistics, linguistic artificial intelligence (AI)
• Reading and writing
• Assessing reading and writing, dyslexia and dysgraphia, vocabulary and reading development, writing systems across the world
• Research methods in linguistics
• Corpus linguistics, experimental linguistics, elicitation, statistics for linguistics, computational detection of linguistic phenomena, computational models of grammar (at all levels).
• Sociolinguistics
• Language variation and change, socially motivated language change
• Dialectology

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Copyright / Open Access

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