Word

Aims & Scope

WORD, a quarterly academic journal of linguistics published online and in print, is the publication of the International Linguistic Association (ILA).

Founded in 1943 as the Linguistic Circle of New York, the association became one of the main sources of new ideas in American Linguistics at that time.

Its journal WORD was founded in 1945 with a mission to disseminate the scholarly discussion of the day and to become the journal of record for general linguistics.

During several decades of intellectual ferment in linguistics, the scholarship published by WORD continued to record the expansion of linguistic ideas — both theoretical and applied.

Today, WORD continues its broadly-based mission to reflect and record contemporary linguistic scholarship.

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

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.

• Distributional Structure

  Citation: 2319

  Authors: Zellig S.

• Diglossia

  Citation: 1932

  Authors: Charles A.

• A Cross-Language Study of Voicing in Initial Stops: Acoustical Measurements

  Citation: 1623

  Authors: Leigh, Arthur S.

• The Child's Learning of English Morphology

  Citation: 1187

  Authors: Jean

• The Social Motivation of a Sound Change

  Citation: 886

  Authors: William

• Hesitation Phenomena in Spontaneous English Speech

  Citation: 456

  Authors: Howard, Charles E.

• Categories of the Theory of Grammar

  Citation: 353

  Authors: M. A. K.

• Phonology in Generative Grammar

  Citation: 291

  Authors: Morris

• A Theory of Pitch Accent in English

  Citation: 290

  Authors: Dwight L.

• Two Models of Grammatical Description

  Citation: 243

  Authors: Charles F.