 After the publication of Laboratory Phonology 10 in 2010, the book series was replaced by the journal Laboratory Phonology.The first six volumes of the journal were published by Mouton de Gruyter, and then starting with volume 7 in 2016, the journal moved to Ubiquity Press, to become an online-only, open-access publication.The journal encompasses the scientific study of the elements of oral language, their organization, their grammatical function, and their role in speech communication.