Language Acquisition
Last updated ISSN 1048-9223
Language Acquisition is published by Taylor & Francis in psychology. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Language Acquisition concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Language Development and Disorders
- Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
Key facts
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1048-9223, 1532-7817 |
| Subject area | Psychology |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 582 |
| Publishing since | 1990 |
| Journal website | www.tandfonline.com/toc/hlac20/current |
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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