Introduction to Volume 8, Issue 2 of topiCS.

Abstract

Our topic for this issue is “New Frontiers in Language Evolution and Development,” and it was organized, proposed, and assembled by Topic Editors D. Kimbrough Oller (University of Memphis, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research), Rick Dale University of California, and Ulrike Griebel (University of Memphis, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research). Theirs is an exciting topic that explores implications of new research on the interrelatedness between evolution and development of language—evo-devo. The researchers they have recruited are a scholarly group, and the collective implications of this research direction are important. It is certain to elicit excitement and to spark further research extending, refining, and defending the arguments in this increasingly important area of cognitive science. topiCS encourages letters and commentaries on all topics, and proposals for new topics. Letters are typically 400–1,000 words (maximum: two published pages) and will be published without abstract or references (possibly 1–2 but usually none). Commentaries are often solicited by Topic Editors prior to the publication of their topic. However, commentaries after publication are also considered and should range between 1,000 and 2,000 words. Most commentaries would not have an abstract and would not include many references. If you have a letter for topiCS, please send it directly to me at grayw@rpi.edu. If you have an idea for a commentary, you might wish to send me a short note first. The Editor and the Senior Editorial Board (SEB) members are constantly searching for new and exciting topics for topiCS. Feel free to open communications with a short note to me (grayw@rpi.edu) or an SEB member (SEB members are listed under the Editorial Board heading on the publisher's homepage for topiCS, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1756-8765/homepage/EditorialBoard.html).