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Language Learning and Development
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Language Learning and Development

1547-5441

Published by: Taylor & Francis

https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/hlld20

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 495 23 28 9
Psychology 809 28 31 8

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 52
Documents by Best Scientists*: 57
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 37
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.768
Impact Factor: 1.4

Overview

Top Research Topics at Language Learning and Development?

Linguistics, Language acquisition, Cognitive psychology, Artificial intelligence and Natural language processing are the subjects of interest in the journal. Noun, Syntax, Verb, Phonology and Grammar are all areas of Linguistics tackled in the journal. Language Learning and Development links adjacent topics like Noun with Object (grammar).

Most of the works presented in Language Learning and Development deals with Syntax but it intersects with the subject of Sentence. The concepts on Language acquisition presented in Language Learning and Development can also apply to other research fields, including Morpheme, Developmental psychology, Vocabulary development, Task analysis and Semantics. The studies in Vocabulary development featured incorporate elements of Pronunciation and Word recognition.

In it, Social psychology, Nonverbal communication, Comprehension, Pragmatics and Visual perception are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Cognitive psychology research. The research on Natural language processing featured in the journal combines topics in other fields like Speech recognition and Constructed language. The journal holds forums on Speech recognition that merges themes from other disciplines such as Speech segmentation and Text segmentation.

  • Linguistics (53.42%)
  • Language acquisition (37.58%)
  • Cognitive psychology (20.19%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • PRIMIR: A Developmental Framework of Infant Speech Processing (422 citations)
  • Regularizing Unpredictable Variation: The Roles of Adult and Child Learners in Language Formation and Change (356 citations)
  • Early Speech Perception and Later Language Development: Implications for the "Critical Period" (279 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Language Learning and Development:

The published articles aim to foster the development of research in Linguistics, Cognitive psychology, Speech recognition, Artificial intelligence and Natural language processing. The journal papers dive deep in exploring the relationship between the study of Linguistics and Competence (human resources). The works on Cognitive psychology tackled in the journal publications bring together disciplines like Cognitive development, Pragmatics, Variety (linguistics) and Language development.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Linguistics
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Mathematics education

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal focuses on Linguistics, Developmental psychology, Cognitive psychology, Artificial intelligence and Variation (linguistics). The journal investigates Linguistics research which frequently intersects with Mirroring. Language Learning and Development explores issues in Developmental psychology which can be linked to other research areas like Spatial language, First language, Cross-cultural studies and Linguistic skills.

The close relationship between Perception and Syntax (programming languages), Mental representation, Adjective and Object (grammar) is one of the points of interest dissected in Cognitive psychology research. Language Learning and Development addresses concerns in Artificial intelligence which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Pattern recognition, Plural and Natural language processing. The journal explores research in Variation (linguistics) alongside concepts in Probabilistic logic and other areas of study in Phonology.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Poverty of the Stimulus Without Tears (2 citations)
  • Seeing and Believing: The Relationship between Perception and Mental Verbs in Acquisition (2 citations)
  • Difference or Delay? Syntax, Semantics, and Verb Vocabulary Development in Typically Developing and Late-talking Toddlers (1 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Language Learning and Development (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Jeffrey Lidz (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Michael Tomasello (7 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Julien Musolino (7 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • David Barner (7 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Sandra R. Waxman (7 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Language Learning and Development (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Maryland, College Park (15 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • University of California, San Diego (15 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Harvard University (13 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Max Planck Society (13 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Northwestern University (12 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 2.70% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 22.22% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 13.89% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 33.33% of all publications and 30.56% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

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Top Publications

  • Language Specificity of Infant-directed Speech: Speaking Rate and Word Position in Word-learning Contexts

    Mengru Han;Nivja H. de Jong;René Kager

    (2021)
    50 Citations
  • Seeing and Believing: The Relationship between Perception and Mental Verbs in Acquisition

    E. Emory Davis;Barbara Landau

    (2021)
    45 Citations
  • How Adults and Children Interpret Disjunction under Negation in Dutch, French, Hungarian and Italian: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison

    Elena Pagliarini;Oana Lungu;Angeliek van Hout;Lilla Pintér

    (2021)
    38 Citations
  • The acquisition of the Tagalog symmetrical voice system: Evidence from structural priming

    Rowena Garcia;Evan Kidd

    (2020)
    18 Citations
  • Is 10 Better than 1? The Effect of Speaker Variability on Children's Cross-situational Word Learning.

    Kimberly Crespo;Margarita Kaushanskaya

    (2021)
    18 Citations
  • Statistical Learning in the Visuomotor Domain and Its Relation to Grammatical Proficiency in Children with and without Developmental Language Disorder: A Conceptual Replication and Meta-Analysis.

    Imme Lammertink;Paul Boersma;Frank Wijnen;Judith Rispens

    (2020)
    18 Citations
  • Expressive Pragmatics and Prosody in Young Preschoolers are More Closely Related to Structural Language than to Mentalizing

    (2022)
    17 Citations
  • Culture at Play: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Mother-Child Communication during Toy Play

    Sirada Rochanavibhata;Viorica Marian

    (2021)
    16 Citations
  • With Language in Mind

    Jill de Villiers

    (2020)
    16 Citations

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