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While it has not been my policy to carry obituaries in the Journal, I would like to note, with deep sorrow, the tragically early death of Peter Jusczyk and to celebrate his major contributions to our field.I am pleased to announce that the Journal is moving to four issues per year which I hope will help us to publish accepted articles somewhat faster.I would like to welcome Edith Bavin of La Trobe University as a new Associate Editor. In addition we are also appointing a Statistics Consultant, Glyn Collis, of Warwick University, to assist the action editors when necessary.We are continuing to publish at least one major Review and Commentary section a year. The next will appear in Issue 2 of this year and will consist of a review article by Dorit Ravid and Liliana Tolchinsky entitled: ‘Developing linguistic literacy: a comprehensive model’ together with a number of commentaries.Finally, while we prefer not to include formal thanks for our editorial work in the acknowledgement sections of papers unless our contribution has been scientific and/or intellectual, but we are highly appreciative of feedback in correspondence with authors and reviewers.