About Languages

Aims

Languages (ISSN 2226-471X) is an international, open access scholarly journal whose central concern is the promotion of understanding of the world’s languages in all its diversity.

Languages aims to present discussions and developments of multidisciplinary research and thereby generating broad and practical applications for the study of languages in the current world. Languages welcomes contributions from scholars and researchers working within the framework of any theoretical approach within linguistics. Languages publishes articles, reviews, commentaries, and communications without restrictions on the maximum length of the submissions. The working language is English; however, research on all languages is welcome.

Scope

We welcome manuscripts in a wide range of areas, including general, historical, theoretical, and applied linguistics. Additionally, the journal covers the subfields of linguistics listed below (proposals for topics not listed here can be discussed with the Editor-in-Chief ([email protected])):

  • Applied linguistics;
  • Atypical language development;
  • Bi/multilingualism;
  • Cognitive linguistics;
  • Construction grammar;
  • Corpus linguistics;
  • Endangered languages;
  • First language acquisition;
  • Forensic linguistics;
  • Generative grammar;
  • Heritage language development;
  • Historical linguistics;
  • Language contact;
  • Language processing;
  • Language typology;
  • Language variation and change;
  • Language testing;
  • Linguistic relativity;
  • Morphology;
  • Neurolinguistics;
  • Phonetics and phonology;
  • Psycholinguistics;
  • Reading and writing;
  • Research methods in linguistics
  • Second and third language acquisition;
  • Sociolinguistics;
  • Theoretical linguistics;
  • Translanguaging;
  • Vocabulary studies.

MDPI Publication Ethics Statement

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Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in Languages will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text:

© 2024 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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