Language Sciences

{{For|the scientific study of language|Linguistics}}

{{Infobox Journal

| title = Language Sciences

| cover = LanguageSciences.gif

| discipline = Linguistics

| abbreviation = Lang. Sci.

| publisher = Elsevier

| country = United Kingdom

| frequency = Bimonthly

| history = 1979–present (in current format)

| openaccess = "back files" pre 1997 &
all to developing world

| website = http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/867/description#description

| impact = 0.682

| impact-year = 2020

| ISSN = 0388-0001

}}

Language Sciences is a peer-reviewed journal published six times a year by Elsevier. The editor is Sune Vork Steffensen of the University of Southern Denmark.

The journal was founded by Thomas Sebeok in May 1968 as a publication of the Research Center for the Language Sciences at Indiana University. In its current version, the journal dates back to March 1979, when it was re-issued with Fred C.C. Peng as editor. A short history of the journal is featured in a 2017 editorial co-authored by Steffensen and the two Associate Editors at the time, Carol Fowler and Graeme Trousdale.Steffensen, S. V., Fowler, C., & Trousdale, G. (2017). Language sciences: Half a century on the linguistic frontiers. Language Sciences, 59, A1-A4. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2016.11.003