Language Learning and Development

Aims & Scope

Language Learning and Development (LL&D) serves as a vehicle for interaction among the broad community of scholars and practitioners who investigate language learning, including language learning in infancy, childhood, and across the lifespan; language in both typical and atypical populations and in both native- and second-language learning.

LL&D welcomes scholars who pursue diverse approaches to understanding all aspects of language acquisition, including biological, social, and cross-cultural influences, and who employ experimental, observational, ethnographic, comparative, neuroscientific, and formal methods of investigation.

The journal is multidisciplinary and seeks to examine language development in all of its many guises.

Among the many issues LL&D explores are biological versus environmental factors in language development; learning in humans versus animals; learning of signed versus spoken language; computer models of learning; and how neurotechnology and visualization of the brain inform our understanding of language learning and development.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.4
2024	1.50

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.768

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	37

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	7149

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	143

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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

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in 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.

• PRIMIR: A Developmental Framework of Infant Speech Processing

  Citation: 387

  Authors: Janet F., Suzanne

• Hard Words

  Citation: 336

  Authors: Lila R., Kimberly, Rebecca, Anna, John C.

• Regularizing Unpredictable Variation: The Roles of Adult and Child Learners in Language Formation and Change

  Citation: 270

  Authors: Carla L., Elissa L.

• Word Learning in Infant- and Adult-Directed Speech

  Citation: 196

  Authors: Weiyi, Roberta Michnick, Derek M., Kathy

• Procedural Learning in Adolescents With and Without Specific Language Impairment

  Citation: 181

  Authors: J. Bruce, Elina, Xuyang

• Individual Differences in Children’s Pragmatic Ability: A Review of Associations with Formal Language, Social Cognition, and Executive Functions

  Citation: 175

  Authors: Danielle, Hannah, Kirsten

• Early Speech Perception and Later Language Development: Implications for the "Critical Period"

  Citation: 147

  Authors: Patricia, Barbara, Denise, Tobey, Jessica

• Statistical Learning of Syntax: The Role of Transitional Probability

  Citation: 139

  Authors: Susan P., Elissa L.

• Once is Enough: N400 Indexes Semantic Integration of Novel Word Meanings from a Single Exposure in Context

  Citation: 130

  Authors: Arielle, Jeffrey L., Marta

• Early Speech Perception and Later Language Development: Implications for the "Critical Period"

  Citation: 127

  Authors: Patricia K., Barbara T., Denise, Tobey, Jessica

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