''Language And Speech'' is a

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that publishes papers in the fields of

linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Lingu ...

experimental psychology Experimental psychology refers to work done by those who apply experimental methods to psychological study and the underlying processes. Experimental psychologists employ human participants and animal subjects to study a great many topics, in ...

audiology Audiology (from Latin , "to hear"; and from Greek , '' -logia'') is a branch of science that studies hearing, balance, and related disorders. Audiologists treat those with hearing loss and proactively prevent related damage. By employing vario ...

and speech-language pathology. The journal's editors are Cynthia Clopper (

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) and Holger Mitterer (

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). It has been in publication since 1958. It was first published by Kingston Press Services, and

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has been the publisher since 2008.

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

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

Dennis Butler Fry Dennis Butler Fry (3 November 1907 – 21 March 1983) was a British linguist and Professor of Experimental Phonetics at University College London. Through experiments he conducted in the 1950s and 1960s, Fry demonstrated that lexical stress corr ...

(University College London) *

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(Haskins Laboratories) * D Robert Ladd &

Ellen G Bard Ellen is a female given name, a diminutive of Elizabeth, Eleanor, Elena and Helen. Ellen was the 609th most popular name in the U.S. and the 17th in Sweden in 2004. People named Ellen include: *Ellen Adarna (born 1988), Filipino actress *Ellen ...

(University of Edinburgh) *

Irene Vogel Irene B. Vogel (born 1952) is an American linguist, specializing in phonology. She is a professor in the University of Delaware Linguistics and Cognitive Science Department, best known for her work on the phonology-syntax interface. Educatio ...

& Tim Bunnell (University of Delaware) (2000–2012) *

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(University of Kansas) (2013–2017) * Cynthia Clopper & Holger Mitterer (2017–present)

Abstracting and indexing

''Language And Speech'' is abstracted and indexed in, among other databases:

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, and the

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. According to the ''

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'', its 2016

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is 1.471, ranking it 14/25 in Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology.

References

External links

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