Community Series: Spanish Psycholinguistics

Spanish is the second most widely spoken language in the world, used by more than 400 million people on the planet. This being the case, it is not surprising that the beginning of the 21st century has represented a clear transition towards the professionalization of experimental research in Spanish psycholinguistics. Hundreds of research groups from different countries have focused their activity on Spanish as a target language, and more and more scientific studies, based on Spanish, shed light on the cognitive processes that underlie the acquisition, learning, perception, or production of language. It is not difficult to find centers specialized in the psycholinguistic or neurolinguistic study of people who speak Spanish as their first language, just as it is not difficult to find laboratories that explore the learning and processing of Spanish as a second language, additional language, heritage language or foreign language. Besides, the last decades have witnessed the progressive emergence and consolidation of research groups and centers with their laboratories and main scientific actions based in the Spanish territory, and regardless of the specific target language used in their daily research agenda, together they have contributed to establishing Spain as a key player in the international psycholinguistic arena.

The current Community Series is aimed at enhancing visibility of the psycholinguistic research done by groups, laboratories and centers whose main research activity is carried out in Spain, or whose target language in their investigations is Spanish or any of the other languages spoken in Spain (Catalan, Galician, Basque or other regional languages). This volume will contribute to boosting scientific outreach of the psycholinguistic community working in Spain or on Spanish.

This Community Series volume is open to submissions from researchers from any country who study Spanish either as a native or non-native language from a psycholinguistic perspective. Also, this volume accepts submissions of any research group exploring psycholinguistics and set in Spain, regardless of the language they use as target of research, be it a majority or a minority or minoritized language. This extends to Spanish laboratories and research teams working on Basque, Catalan or Galician, among others.

We welcome all types of articles. Special consideration will be given to the following article types: Systematic Review, Review, and Mini Review, along with experimental studies presenting empirical data in the form of Brief Research Report, Registered Report, Original Research, or Data Report.

Keywords: Psycholinguistics, Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Galician, Regional Languages, Multilingualism, Cognitive Science of Language, Neurolinguistics, Spain, #CollectionSeries

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