Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Languages 2023 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The Languages Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to Languages. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround are maintained.

Dr. John Blake
Center for Language Research, University of Aizu, Aizu-wakamatsu, Japan
Research Interests: natural language processing; machine learning; similarity
detection; linguistics

Prof. Dr. Giorgio Francesco Arcodia
Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Venezia, Italy
Research Interests: Chinese linguistics

The Prize for Each Winner:
– CHF 300;
– An opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in Languages in 2024 after peer review;
– An electronic certificate.

Kind regards,
Languages Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Languages 2022 Best Paper Award. All papers published in 2022 in Languages were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, three winners were selected.

The First Prize: CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Languages in 2024 after peer review;
Cultural Experience Influences Multisensory Emotion Perception in Bilinguals
By Peiyao Chen, Ashley Chung-Fat-Yim and Viorica Marian
Languages 2022, 7(1), 12; doi:10.3390/languages7010012

The Second Prize: A chance to publish a paper free of charge in Languages in 2024 after peer review
Segmental and Prosodic Evidence for Property-by-Property Transfer in L3 English in Northern Africa
By John Archibald
Languages 2022, 7(1), 28; doi:10.3390/languages7010028

Multilingual Children’s Motivations to Code-Switch: A Qualitative Analysis of Code-Switching in Dutch-English Bilingual Daycares
By Nina-Sophie Sczepurek, Suzanne P. Aalberse and Josje Verhagen
Languages 2022, 7(4), 274; doi:10.3390/languages7040274

Please join us in congratulating the winners of Languages 2022 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of Languages.

The winners will be announced on the journal website on 29 February 2024.

Kind regards,
Languages Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Languages 2022 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The Languages Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to Languages. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround are maintained.

Prof. Dr. Dai O’Brien
School of Education, Language and Psychology, York St John University, York, UK
Research Interests: deaf; deafhood; British sign language; bourdieu; creative research methods; spatial theory

Prof. Dr. Natascha Mueller
Romance Linguistics, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
Research Interests: linguistics; romance studies; French acquisition; cross-linguistic influence; heritage speakers; incomplete acquisition; acceleration and delay; acquisition of French

The Prizes for Each Winner:
– CHF 300;
– An opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in Languages in 2023 after peer review;
– A certificate.

Kind regards,
Languages Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Languages 2021 Best Paper Award. All papers published in Languages from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021 were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, three winners were selected.

One winning paper: CHF 500, a chance to publish a paper free of charge after peer review in Languages before the end of December 2023, and a certificate.

Longitudinal Developments in Bilingual Second Language Acquisition and First Language Attrition of Speech: The Case of Arnold Schwarzenegger
By Lisa Kornder and Ineke Mennen
Languages 2021, 6(2), 61; doi:10.3390/languages6020061

Two honorable mentions: A chance to publish a paper free of charge after peer review in Languages before the end of December 2023 and a certificate.

Phonological Awareness across Child Populations: How Bilingualism and Dyslexia Interact
By Maria Vender and Chiara Melloni
Languages 2021, 6(1), 39; doi:10.3390/languages6010039

The Melody of Speech: What the Melodic Perception of Speech Reveals about Language Performance and Musical Abilities
By Markus Christiner, Christine Gross, Annemarie Seither-Preisler and Peter Schneider
Languages 2021, 6(3), 132; doi:10.3390/languages6030132

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Languages 2021 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of Languages.

Kind regards,
Languages Editorial Office