Journal of Child Language
Last updated ISSN 0305-0009
Journal of Child Language is published by Cambridge University Press in psychology. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,550.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Child Language concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Language Development and Disorders
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Hearing Impairment and Communication
Key facts
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0305-0009, 1469-7602 |
| Subject area | Psychology |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,550 |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 3,192 |
| Publishing since | 1889 |
| Journal website | journals.cambridge.org/jcl |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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