The papers in this volume cover many aspects of Arabic linguistic research, from investigations of the acquisition of phonetic detail, to the borrowing of discourse patterns, the use of "secret" languages and models of language acquisition.

1. Editorial Note; 2. Introduction (by Parkinson, Dilworth B.); 3. VOT Production in English and Arabic Bilingual and Monolingual Children (by Khattab, Ghada); 4. Discovering Arabic Rhythm through a Speech Cycling Task (by Zawaydeh, Bushra Adnan); 5. An Argument for a Stem-based View of Arabic Morphology: Double verbs revisited (by Gafos, Adamantios I.); 6. The Broken Plural System of Moroccan Arabic: Diachronic and cognitive perspectives (by Ratcliffe, Robert R.); 7. Impersonal Agreement as a Specificity Effect in Rural Palestinian Arabic (by Hoyt, Frederick); 8. The Syntax of Small Clauses in Moroccan Arabic (by Sadiqi, Fatima); 9. Borrowing Discourse Patterns: French rhetoric in Arabic legal texts (by Fakhri, Ahmed); 10. What is a Secret Language?: A case from a Saudi Arabian dialect (by Bakalla, Muhammad Hasan); 11. Sentence Processing Strategies: An application of the competition model to Arabic (by Radwan, Adel Abu); 12. Acquisition of Binding in L1 Arabic (by Bolotin, Naomi); 13. Role of L1 Transfer in L2 Acquisition of Inflectional Morphology (by Alhawary, Mohammad T.); 14. Index of Subjects