Table of Contents

1. Editorial Note; 2. Introduction (by Alhawary, Mohammad T.); 3. The Length of Stem-final Vowels in Colloquial Arabic (by McCarthy, John J.); 4. Moraic Syllable Structure and Edge Effects in Arabic (by Mahfoudhi, Abdessatar); 5. The Structure of Arabic Intonation: A preliminary investigation (by Rifaat, Khaled); 6. Phonological Processes in Connected Speech in Colloquial Egyptian Arabic (by Salem, Hanaa); 7. Root Formation and Polysemic Organization in Arabic Lexicon: A probabilistic model (by Zanned, Lazhar); 8. Light Verbs in Standard and Egyptian Arabic (by Ibrahim, Amr Helmy); 9. Rethinking Lexical Aspect in Egyptian Arabic (by Mughazy, Mustafa A.); 10. Building a Computational Lexicon for Arabic: A corpus-based approach (by Al-Ansary, Sameh); 11. Political Transition, Linguistic Shift: How a political communique (bayaan) has come to be what it is (by Boussofara, Naima); 12. Agreement Alternations: How optional patterns of agreement arise (by Lorimor, Heidi); 13. Acquisition of Arabic Word Formation: A multi-path approach (by Badry, Fatima); 14. L2 Acquisition of Arabic Morphosyntactic Features: Temporary or permanent impairment? (by Alhawary, Mohammad T.); 15. Index of Subjects