Journal of Child Language

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{{Infobox journal

| title = Journal of Child Language

| editor = Elma Blom, Melanie Soderstrom

| cover = Journal of Child Language cover.jpg

| discipline = Linguistics

| abbreviation = J. Child Lang.

| publisher = Cambridge University Press

| country =

| license = Creative Commons

| impact = 1.7

| impact-year = 2023

| history = 1974–present

| frequency = Bimonthly

| openaccess = Yes

| website = http://journals.cambridge.org/jcl

| link1 = http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=JCL&tab=currentissue

| link1-name = Online access

| link2 = http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayBackIssues?jid=JCL

| link2-name = Online archive

| ISSN = 0305-0009

| eISSN = 1469-7602

| JSTOR =

| OCLC = 485704851

| LCCN = 76649848

}}

The Journal of Child Language is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering all aspects of the study of language behavior in children, the principles which underlie it, and the theories which may account for it. This includes various aspects of linguistics such as phonology, phonetics, morphology, syntax, vocabulary, semantics, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics. Its editors-in-chief are Elma Blom (Utrecht University) and Melanie Soderstrom (University of Manitoba). It was established in 1974 with David Crystal (Bangor University) as its founding editor. The journal is published by Cambridge University Press and is fully open access. It is the official journal of the International Association for the Study of Child Language.