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First Language is a forum for research into how children acquire their first language, and the application of that research into practice.

First Language publishes original research, theoretical articles, review articles and book reviews in all areas of first language acquisition. Age groups studied range from neonates to adolescents. This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Multidisciplinary in scope
Child language research is multidisciplinary and this is reflected in the contents of the journal: research from diverse theoretical and methodological traditions is welcome. Authors from a wide range of disciplines - including psychology, linguistics, anthropology, cognitive science, neuroscience, communication, sociology and education - are regularly represented in our pages. Empirical papers range from individual case studies, through experiments, observational/ naturalistic, analyses of CHILDES corpora, to parental surveys.

The journal encourages submissions in all of the following areas:

syntactic, semantic, morphological, phonological, and pragmatic development
language and cognitive development
language and social development
language and educational development
language of children with developmental disorders
exceptional language abilities
bilingual development
role of parental speech
interrelationships between language and nonverbal development
relationships between language and literacy
discourse analysis
socio-economic factors and language acquisition
preverbal communication
language development across cultures
language and ethnic development
measurement and analysis issues in child language research.

Potential authors who are unsure of the relevance of their work to the journal's scope are welcome to contact the Editor directly for advice.

Special Issues

First Language occasionally publishes special issues devoted to topics of pressing interest. These are usually Guest Edited by prominent researchers in the relevant areas. Recent examples include:

Children's acquisition of referentiality in narratives, edited by Natalia Gagarina and Ute Bohnacker
The acquisition of complex predicates, edited by Hannah Sarvasy
Against stored abstractions: A radical exemplar model of language acquisition, edited by Chloë Marshall.
Syntax and verbal short term/working memory in developmental disorders, edited by Stavroula Stavrakaki
The role of grammatical words in children's early syntactic development, edited by Anat Ninio

Society Discounts

Members of the International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL) are entitled to a 30% subscription discount to First Language (on the individual rate). Confirm details of your membership when ordering and quote the code IASCL.

For further information about the society visit https://www.childlanguage.org/

Members of the British Association of Applied Linguistics are entitled to a 20% subscription discount to First Language (on the individual rate). Confirm details of your membership when ordering and quote the code BAAL.

First Language is available on SAGE Journals Online.

Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/fla.