Aims & Scope

The Turkish Journal of Psycholinguistics (TJPL) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal devoted to the scientific study of language as a cognitive and neural system. It publishes original research on how language is acquired, represented, produced, comprehended, and lost across the lifespan and across populations.

The journal is international in scope and places no geographic or linguistic restriction on submissions. Research on any language, population, or theoretical tradition is welcome, and authors from every part of the world are encouraged to submit. The word “Turkish” in the title is geographic — it indicates where the journal is based — and carries no implication for the languages or communities the journal covers. As an editorial priority rather than a restriction, TJPL actively encourages cross-linguistic and typologically diverse research that extends psycholinguistic theory beyond the small set of languages on which it has historically been built.

Every manuscript must make a clear contribution to the understanding of the cognitive or neural basis of language and must be of interest to an international readership. The journal welcomes experimental, computational, theoretical, and methodological work, as well as rigorous reviews. Purely descriptive language studies, pedagogical reports lacking a processing or acquisition component, and work without an explicit psycholinguistic question fall outside the journal’s scope.

Topics within scope

Topics within scope include, but are not limited to:

  • First-language acquisition and developmental psycholinguistics
  • Second-language and bilingual / multilingual processing and acquisition
  • Sentence and discourse processing; parsing and ambiguity resolution
  • Lexical access, the mental lexicon, and morphological processing
  • Speech perception and spoken-word recognition
  • Reading, visual word recognition, and writing systems
  • Language production, from conceptualization to articulation
  • Neurolinguistics and the cognitive neuroscience of language (EEG/ERP, MEG, fMRI, fNIRS, eye-tracking)
  • Clinical and atypical populations (aphasia, developmental language disorder, dyslexia)
  • Computational and quantitative modelling of language behaviour
  • Methods, measurement, replication, and open-science practice in psycholinguistics

Article types

The journal publishes Research Articles, Short Reports, Review Articles, Registered Reports, Methods & Tools papers, and Commentaries. The journal actively encourages Registered Reports and replication studies as part of its commitment to rigorous and reproducible science.