''Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics'' is an American peer-reviewed journal in

psycholinguistics Psycholinguistics or psychology of language is the study of the interrelation between linguistic factors and psychological aspects. The discipline is mainly concerned with the mechanisms by which language is processed and represented in the mind ...

that has been published quarterly since 1990. It is mainly devoted to studies of

language acquisition Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language (in other words, gain the ability to be aware of language and to understand it), as well as to produce and use words and sentences to ...

that are informed by, and relevant to, current research in

generative linguistics Generative grammar, or generativism , is a linguistic theory that regards linguistics as the study of a hypothesised innate grammatical structure. It is a biological or biologistic modification of earlier structuralist theories of linguistic ...

. Its founding co-editors were Robert Berwick, Thomas Roeper, and Kenneth Wexler. From 2003 to 2011 it was co-edited by

Diane Lillo-Martin Diane Lillo-Martin is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of Connecticut. She is currently the Director of the university's Cognitive Sciences Program as well as its Coordinator of American Sign Language St ...

and William Snyder (both from University of Connecticut). The current editor is

Jeffrey Lidz Jeffrey Lidz is a linguistics professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research focuses on syntactic aspects of language acquisition. Career Lidz received his PhD from the University of Delaware in 1996 and held postdoctoral ...

from the University of Maryland. The journal, which is available online with subscription, was published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates from 1990 until 2007, and is now published by Psychology Press, part of the Taylor & Francis Group.

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