Special Issues

Languages publishes Special Issues to create collections of papers on specific topics, with the aim of building a community of authors and readers to discuss the latest research and develop new ideas and research directions. Special Issues are led by Guest Editors, who are experts on the topic. The journal’s Editor-in-Chief and/or designated EBM will oversee Guest Editor appointments and Special Issue proposals, checking their content for relevance and ensuring the suitability of the material for the journal. The papers published in a Special Issue will be collected and displayed on a dedicated page of the journal’s website. For any inquiries related to a Special Issue, please contact the Editorial Office.

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Language Policy and Practice in Multilingual Families submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5239 | Submission Open
Keywords: family; identity; policy; language; culture; sociological approach; ethnography; sustainable society; majority; minority; transnational; transcultural
Interface between Sociolinguistics and Music
edited by Verónica Loureiro-Rodríguez and María Irene Moyna
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2267 | Submission Open
Keywords: popular music; songs; lyrics; sociolinguistics; identity; performance
Speech Variation in Contemporary Italian
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submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | Viewed by 540 | Submission Open
Research Methods for Exploring the Role of Input in Child Bilingual Development
edited by Maria Kihlstedt and Cathy Cohen
submission deadline 15 Apr 2024 | Viewed by 714 | Submission Open
Keywords: language input; child bilingualism; bilingual development; methodological approaches: data driven; experimental; qualitative; quantitative; language status and typology
Linguistic Practices in Heritage Language Acquisition
edited by Ekaterina Protassova and Maria Yelenevskaya
submission deadline 15 Apr 2024 | Viewed by 273 | Submission Open
Keywords: diasporic communities; heritage language acquisition and maintenance; family language policy; minority linguistic education; Baltic languages; Finno-Ugric languages; Slavic languages; German; Hebrew; Somalian; Spanish
Sociolinguistic Studies: Insights from Arabic
edited by Dris Soulaimani and Brahim Chakrani
submission deadline 15 Apr 2024 | Viewed by 170 | Submission Open
Keywords: Arabic sociolinguistics; language ideologies and language attitudes; discourse analysis and conversational analysis; diglossia and multilingualism; standard language and dialects
The Variable Sound Patterns of Spanish: Methods, Trends, and Innovations
edited by and Richard File-Muriel
submission deadline 15 Apr 2024 | Viewed by 142 | Submission Open
Keywords: phonological variation and change; innovation; methods; theory; acoustic techniques; usage-based; laboratory approaches to phonology; phonology and unithood; lexical
Current Trends in Ecolinguistics
edited by Douglas Mark Ponton and Lucia Abbamonte
submission deadline 20 Apr 2024 | Viewed by 1672 | Submission Open
Keywords: ecolinguistics; the environment; sustainability; green visions; positive discourse analysis; ecocriticism
Vocabulary Studies in L1 and L2 Development: The Interface between Theory and Practice
edited by Jon Clenton, Gavin Brooks and Batia Laufer
submission deadline 29 Apr 2024 | Viewed by 457 | Submission Open
Keywords: vocabulary; development; lexical studies; interface; theory; practice
Syntax and Discourse at the Crossroads
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submission deadline 30 Apr 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 8695 | Submission Open
Keywords: syntax– discourse interface; information structure; discursive features; speech act
Corpus-Based Linguistics of Old English submission deadline 30 Apr 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1432 | Submission Open
Keywords: old English; corpus linguistics; linguistic analysis
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Personal Names and Naming in Africa
edited by Eyo Mensah
submission deadline 30 Apr 2024 | Viewed by 838 | Submission Open
Keywords: personal names; sociolinguistics; pragmatics; ethnography; socio-onomastics; identity; culture; environment; person reference
Impacts of Phonetically Variable Input on Language Learning
edited by Kiwako Ito
submission deadline 30 Apr 2024 | Viewed by 183 | Submission Open
Linguistics of Social Media
edited by Andreea S. Calude
submission deadline 1 May 2024 | Viewed by 866 | Submission Open
Facets of Greek Language
edited by and Eleftheria Geronikou
submission deadline 10 May 2024 | Viewed by 305 | Submission Open
Keywords: typical language development and use; atypical language development and use; multilingualism; clinical aspects; acquired language disorders
Exploring Pragmatics in Contemporary Cross-Cultural Contexts
edited by Veronika Makarova
submission deadline 20 May 2024 | Viewed by 177 | Submission Open
Keywords: pragmatics; intercultural communication; 21st century
Exploring Discourse and Identity in the Diverse and Evolving Varieties of Southeast Asian Englishes
edited by Francisco Perlas Dumanig and Leah Gustilo
submission deadline 30 May 2024 | Viewed by 517 | Submission Open
Keywords: Southeast Asian Englishes; discourse; identity; language use; language attitudes
The Development of Sociolinguistic Competence
edited by and Kristen Kennedy Terry
submission deadline 31 May 2024 | Viewed by 476 | Submission Open
Keywords: sociolinguistic competence; applied linguistics; second language acquisition
Universal Grammar and Second Language Acquisition
edited by Tom Rankin
submission deadline 31 May 2024 | Viewed by 194 | Submission Open
Keywords: universal grammar; SLA; language acquisition; generative theory; cross-linguistic influence
Language Input Effects in Atypical Language Development
edited by and Imme Lammertink
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 271 | Submission Open
Keywords: language input; atypical language development; language environment; language acquisition
Dialectal Dynamics
edited by Alfred Lameli, Simonetta Montemagni and John Nerbonne
submission deadline 1 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 533 | Submission Open
Keywords: dialectology; social dialectology; dialectological theory; language documentation
Parsers and Grammars
edited by Carlos Acuña-Fariña
submission deadline 1 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 103 | Submission Open
Keywords: parsing; grammar; psycholinguistics; illusions; heuristics
Recent Developments on the Diachrony and Typology of Bantu Languages
edited by Koen Bostoen and Sara Pacchiarotti
submission deadline 15 Jul 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1526 | Submission Open
Keywords: Bantu; convergence; divergence; diachrony; genealogical classification; grammaticalization; language contact; nominal morphosyntax; reconstruction; sound change; typology; TAMP; verbal derivation
Exploring Second Language Acquisition of Grammar from a Psycholinguistic Perspective
edited by Line Burholt Kristensen and Sabine Gosselke-Berthelsen
submission deadline 1 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 455 | Submission Open
Keywords: second language acquisition; psycholinguistics; experimental linguistics; grammar; language processing; language production
The Syntax-Prosody Interface in East Asian Languages
edited by
submission deadline 15 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 383 | Submission Open
Advances in the Investigation of L3 Speech Perception submission deadline 15 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 220 | Submission Open
Keywords: L3 perception; cross-linguistic phonetic similarity; L3 phonology; multilingual
Acoustic-Perceptual Perspectives on Phonological Patterning in Individuals and Languages
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submission deadline 30 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 168 | Submission Open
Keywords: acoustic phonetics; speech perception; phonological patterns; sound change; language development
Current Trends and Future Directions in Bilingual Language Acquisition submission deadline 1 Sep 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5138 | Submission Open
Keywords: bilingualism/multilingualism; language acquisition; input quality; input quantity; neurodiversity; society; assessment; intervention; ethnography
Diverse Perspectives on Cognition and Language Learning in Bilingual Children submission deadline 1 Sep 2024 | Viewed by 858 | Submission Open
Keywords: bilingualism; children; cognition; culture; language learning; language processing; linguistic justice; translanguaging
(A)typical Clauses across Languages
edited by Ritva Laury and Tsuyoshi Ono
submission deadline 1 Sep 2024 | Viewed by 182 | Submission Open
Keywords: clause; conversation; (a)typicality; overt mention; predicate
We Are What We Say: Accent-Inclusive Sociopragmatic Research
edited by Emilie Maurel-Destruel and Ethan Kutlu
submission deadline 15 Sep 2024 | Viewed by 914 | Submission Open
Keywords: accents; dialects; pragmatics; sociolinguistics; inferences; variation
Aspects of the Syntax and Semantics of Sanskrit
edited by Brendan Gillon and Peter Scharf
submission deadline 15 Sep 2024 | Viewed by 85 | Submission Open
Keywords: Sanskrit; syntax; semantics
Adult and Child Sentence Processing When Reading or Writing submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6844 | Submission Open
Keywords: reading; writing; sentence (processing); child; adult; typical; atypical
An Acoustic Analysis of Vowels
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submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2176 | Submission Open
Keywords: acoustic analyses; acoustic– phonetics; vowels; speech perception; speech production; heritage language; bilingualism; language variation; accent variation; language change; language contact; minority languages; apraxia; dysarthria; language documentation; regional variation; sociophonetics
Cognition in Second Language Writing submission deadline 15 Oct 2024 | Viewed by 688 | Submission Open
Keywords: writing; cognition; cognitive processes; cognitive strategies; writing-to-learn; process-oriented
Current Issues in Vietnamese Linguistics
edited by Trang Phan, Nigel Duffield and Tim Chou
submission deadline 15 Oct 2024 | Viewed by 309 | Submission Open
Keywords: vietnamese linguistics; phonetics; phonology; morphology; syntax; semantics; pragmatics; historical linguistics
Research on Articulation and Prosodic Structure
edited by Donna Erickson and Malin Svensson Lundmark
submission deadline 15 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 234 | Submission Open
Keywords: articulation; prosodic structure; prominence patterns; segmental articulation; syllabic articulation; phrasing/boundaries; articulatory planning
The Aspectual Architecture of the Slavic Verb: Analogies in Different Languages and Other Grammatical Domains
edited by and Petr Biskup
submission deadline 20 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 119 | Submission Open
Keywords: aspectual composition; aspectual markers; aspectual analogies; aspect and clausal embedding; experimental methods
L2 Speech Perception and Production in the Globalized World
edited by Okim Kang and Maria Kostromitina
submission deadline 30 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 166 | Submission Open
Usage-Based Approaches to Second Language Acquisition: Crosslinguistic Perspectives
edited by Sanako Mitsugi, Zoe Pei Sui Luk, Nozomi Tanaka, and Yasuhiro Shirai
submission deadline 15 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 383 | Submission Open
Keywords: usage-based approaches; second language acquisition (SLA); crosslinguistic perspectives
New Research on the Role and Effects of Structured Input in Assessing the Nature of Language Processing
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submission deadline 20 Dec 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1926 | Submission Open
Keywords: input processing; structured input; processing instruction
Determining the Scope, Nature and Causes of Attrition in Adult L1 Grammars
edited by Lewis Baker, Laura Domínguez and Glyn Hicks
submission deadline 29 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 258 | Submission Open
Keywords: L1 attrition; L2 acquisition; bilingualism; cross-linguistic influence; linguistic input; processing; experimental design/methodology; morphosyntax; semantics; phonology
Analyzing Language Change
edited by Alvaro Cerron-Palomino
submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 217 | Submission Open
Keywords: language change; historical linguistics; language reconstruction; historical sociolinguistics
Cognitive Neuroscience in Multilingualism Research
edited by Mariana Vega Mendoza
submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 164 | Submission Open
Keywords: bilingualism; multilingualism; neuroscience; language; cognition
Pragmatic Diachronic Study of the 20th Century
edited by Salvador Pons Bordería and Adrià Pardo Llibrer
submission deadline 7 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 136 | Submission Open
Keywords: 20th-century diachrony; pragmatics; grammaticalization; constructionalization; colloquialization; orality and social interaction; media discourse
Second Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistic Studies
edited by Rebecca Pozzi and Chelsea Escalante
submission deadline 15 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 212 | Submission Open
Keywords: second language acquisition; sociolinguistics; crosslinguistic perspectives
The Interaction between Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory
edited by
submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 253 | Submission Open
Keywords: second language acquisition; linguistics theory; language development; mental representation; mind; brain
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