The purposes of this society shall be to stimulate research in the language sciences based on natural language data, in areas such as language acquisition, psycholinguistics, discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, and to support the development of the language sciences through exchange between researchers.
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The society’s journal Studies in Language Science (SLS) is available on J-Stage. The current issue is Vol. 20-1.
The journal’s official title has changed from Studies in Language Sciences: Journal of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences to simply Studies in Language Sciences (SLS).