Focus and Scope

Laboratory Phonology is the official journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology. Its focus is the scientific study of the elements of spoken and signed language, their organization, their grammatical functions, and their roles in speech communication. The journal publishes research on phonology and its intersections with all other domains of linguistics (e.g., phonetics, syntax, morphology, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics) as well as related disciplines such as the many branches of psychology; speech, hearing, and communication sciences and disorders; computer science; and electrical and computer engineering. Readers of Laboratory Phonology are interested in phonological questions approached from various theoretical frameworks, investigated with empirical methods.

Research published in Laboratory Phonology is grounded in quantitative analyses of empirical data from diverse languages and from diverse types of populations across the lifespan (i.e., including (a)typically developing infants and children and disabled and clinical populations). Submissions to Laboratory Phonology involve data from human participants, typically in the form of (laboratory) experiments, speech or signed corpora, or speech or signed languages obtained in fieldwork settings. Analyses may be based on acoustic and articulatory measurements, frequency counts, reaction times, perceptual judgments, qualitative judgments, neurophysiological/neuroimaging data, etc. The journal publishes regular, independent articles and has also published collections of articles focusing on specific research topics. Exploratory studies that pertain to phonological themes, and papers focusing on methodologies that are pertinent to laboratory phonology research, are welcomed at Laboratory Phonology. Review articles are also welcomed, but interested authors should contact the editors prior to embarking on such an endeavor.

The journal started in 2010. The first six volumes were published by De Gruyter Mouton. The articles in these volumes are freely available here.

The journal is supported with long-term funding provided by the Open Library of Humanities (OLH).

Publication Frequency

The journal is published online as a continuous volume and issue throughout the year.

Special collections of articles are welcome and will be published as part of the normal issue, but also within a separate collection page.

Journal Statistics

Core journal statistics for the 2020 volume:

Definitions

¹Number of new articles received by the journal
²Number of peer review invitation emails that were sent out
³Number of completed peer review reports received
⁴Total number of articles rejected (including desk rejects)
⁵Number of articles rejected prior to peer review
⁶Number of articles that received a 'Accept for publication' decision
⁷Number of acceptances, as a percentage, against the total number of final decisions
⁸'Mean' average from submission to publication for all publications in the volume

Publication Data

All publications include the publication data, and from June 2017 the submission and acceptance dates.

All papers within the journal are assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) at the time of publication, providing more persistent identifier to the article and helping to track citations.

Annotation and Post-Publication Comment

The journal platform permits readers to leave comments on the publication page, via the Disqus service. Readers will need a Disqus account to leave comments. Comments may be moderated by the journal. However, if they are non-offensive and relevant to the publication subject, comments will remain online without edit.

The journal platform also includes in-browser annotation and text highlighting options on full text formats via hypothes.is. Readers will require a hypothes.is account to create annotations, and will have the option to make these publicly available, available to a group, or private.