We are pleased to announce that the recipients of the Albert Valdman Award for outstanding publication in 2017 are Payman Vafaee, Yuichi Suzuki and Ilina Kachisnke for their March 2017 article, “Validating grammaticality judgment tests: Evidence from two new psycholinguistic measures” and Tania Leal, Roumyana Slabakova and Thomas A. Farmer for their September 2017 article, “The fine-tuning of linguistic expectations over the course of L2 learning.” Please join us in congratulating these authors on their contribution to the journal and to the field.