Language and Speech

Aims & Scope

Language and Speech is a peer-reviewed journal which provides an international forum for communication among researchers in the disciplines that contribute to our understanding of human production, perception, processing, learning, use, and disorders of speech and language.

Interdisciplinary submissions are encouraged.

Corpus-based, experimental, and observational research bringing spoken or written language within the domain of linguistic, psychological, or computational models are particularly welcome.

Purely clinical, linguistic, philosophical, or technological offerings should be sent elsewhere.

The journal may commission book reviews, theoretically motivated literature reviews, conference reports, and brief tutorial introductions to new areas of research.

Starting in 2014 we encourage authors to submit either Short Reports or Full Reports.

Short Reports should be approximately 4000 words (excluding title page, abstract, author affiliations, acknowledgments, reference section, figures and tables).

Despite the brevity of a Short Report, it should describe original empirical findings that make substantial contributions to the field, and that will be of broad interest to the readership of the journal.

For Full Reports, authors are encouraged to clearly convey the necessary information using a maximum of 20,000 words.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.1
2024	1.10

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	7107

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	255

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.772

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	65

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science
• Medline

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Health Professions, Medicine and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Prosody in the Comprehension of Spoken Language: A Literature Review

  Citation: 651

  Authors: Anne, Delphine, Wilma

• The Hcrc Map Task Corpus

  Citation: 498

  Authors: Anne H., Miles, Ellen Gurman, Elizabeth, Gwyneth, Simon, Stephen, Jacqueline, Jan, Jim, Catherine, Henry S., Regina

• Experiments in the Perception of Stress

  Citation: 467

  Authors: D. B.

• The Smooth Signal Redundancy Hypothesis: A Functional Explanation for Relationships between Redundancy, Prosodic Prominence, and Duration in Spontaneous Speech

  Citation: 387

  Authors: Matthew, Alice

• Disfluency Rates in Conversation: Effects of Age, Relationship, Topic, Role, and Gender

  Citation: 358

  Authors: Heather, Silvia D., Jonathan E., Michael F., Susan E.

• Processing Time, Accent, and Comprehensibility in the Perception of Native and Foreign-Accented Speech

  Citation: 355

  Authors: Murray J., Tracey M.

• Some Effects of Context On Voice Onset Time in English Stops

  Citation: 339

  Authors: Leigh, Arthur S.

• Phonetic Diversity, Statistical Learning, and Acquisition of Phonology

  Citation: 320

  Authors: Janet B.

• Q uantitative Characterizations of Speech Rhythm: Syllable-Timing in Singapore English

  Citation: 275

  Authors: Low Ee, Esther, Francis

• Some Effects of Semantic and Grammatical Context on the Production and Perception of Speech

  Citation: 262

  Authors: Philip

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