Bilingualism: Language and Cognition is a peer-reviewed linguistics

Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....

 journal, focusing on the study of multilingualism

Multilingualism

Multilingualism is the act of using, or promoting the use of, multiple languages, either by an individual speaker or by a community of speakers. Multilingual speakers outnumber monolingual speakers in the world's population. Multilingualism is becoming a social phenomenon governed by the needs of...

. The journal is currently published by Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII in 1534, it is the world's oldest publishing house, and the second largest university press in the world...

 and was cofounded by François Grosjean

Francois Grosjean

François Grosjean is a Professor Emeritus and former Director of the Language and Speech Processing Laboratory at the University of Neuchâtel . His specialty is psycholinguistics and his domains of interest are the perception, comprehension and production of language, be it speech or sign language,...

 in 1998.

This journal is available electronically with subscription via the site of the publisher.

Aims and scope

The journal publishes approximately 30 articles per year on areas including bilingual language competence, perception and production, bilingual language acquisition in children and adults, neurolinguistics of bilingualism (in normal and brain-damaged populations), and non-linguistic cognitive processes in bilinguals.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is indexed in the following services:

• Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts,
• SCOPUS
  Scopus
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• EBSCOhost
• MLA International Bibliography
• Social Sciences Citation Index
• E-psyche

According to the Journal Citation Reports

Journal Citation Reports

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, the impact factor of Bilingualism: Language and Cognition is 1.636 (2009), placing it 15th out of 93 in the Linguistics category.

Notable articles

• "Mental control of the bilingual lexico-semantic system" - D.W. Green, Aug 1998 1:2, pp 67-81
• "Studying bilinguals: Methodological and conceptual issues" - F. Grosjean, Aug 1998 1:2, pp 131-149
• "The architecture of the bilingual word recognition system: From identification to decision" - T. Dijkstra & W. van Heuven, Dec 2002 5:3 pp 175-197

External links

• Bilingualism: Language and Cognition homepage at Cambridge Journals Online