Talk:Language (journal)

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Chomsky's review of Skinner
I reverted the deleted text about Chomsky's review of Skinner's "Verbal Behavior" and Lees' review of Chomsky's "Syntactic Structures". Whether one likes these reviews or not, they are the only two articles from Language likely to ne known to non-linguists, and they are surely two of the articles that shaped the field in the last half of the twentieth century and into the 21st. (The Skinner review, for example, appears on the list of "top 100 works in cognitive science" at http://www.cogsci.umn.edu/OLD/calendar/past_events/millennium/final.html. The book "Syntactic Structures" is first.)   Again, whether you think this is a good thing or not. --Linguistslinguist 02:32, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

again
The Chomsky review of Skinner was certainly for many years one of the Language pieces most likely to be known to non-linguist social-sciences academics, but whether it is the "most famous" ever is possibly dubious. If the Chomsky review is allowed to overshadow 75 years of scholarly activities mainly internal to the field of linguistics, then there would seem to be a rather striking disproportionality... AnonMoos (talk) 07:05, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Not Open Access
This journal does not appear to be open access. The link in the article to "open access of language since 2001" leads to Project Muse which only provides closed access to the journal. The journal's website (here) states:

"At no additional cost, LSA members may now access Language, beginnning with Volume 77 (2001), on the web through Project MUSE. To take advantage of this benefit, please follow the instructions below...Click on the article you would like to read. If you are not currently connected from a library that is a member of Project Muse, you will need to log in. LSA members should use LSA1 as their login and jun56 as their password."

This is NOT open access. This is access to those at subscribing institutions along with free online access for LSA members, and those who somehow happen to find out about the LSA user name and password. Open Access, in ANY accepted definition of the phrase, requires free online accessibility to EVERYONE. As such I think it warrants removing this claim. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leddydavej (talk • contribs) 17:04, 12 November 2012 (UTC)


 * It appears that this policy has changed, with all content being available free online after a one year embargo. See here. Brusquedandelion (talk) 08:49, 13 March 2024 (UTC)