Papers from the 1998 Hispanic Linguistics Symposium include: "Patterns of Gender Agreement in the Speech of Second Language Learners"; "'Nomas' in Mexican American Dialect"; "Parsing Spanish 'solo'"; "On Levels of Processing and Levels of Comprehension"; "The Role of Attention in Second/Foreign Language Classroom Research: Methodological Issues"; "The Role of Templates in the Acquisition of Phonology"; "On Interpreting Generic Pronouns in Spanish"; "Forms of Address in the Commercial Spanish of Five Latin American Cities"; "Reexamining Spanish Glides: Analogically Conditioned Variation in Vocoid Sequences in Spanish Dialects"; "On the Non-Occurrence of the Phone [r] in the Spanish Sound System"; "Official Use of the Vernacular in the Thirteenth Century: Medieval Spanish Language Policy?"; "The Moraic Status of Consonants from Latin to Hispano-Romance: The Case of Obstruents"; "Patterns in the Lexicon: Hiatus with Unstressed High Vowels in Spanish"; "The Many Faces of Spanish /s/-Weakening: (Re)alignment and Ambisyllabicity"; "Spanish Substantives: How Many Classes?""A Perception Study of Intermediate Phrasing in Spanish Intonation"; "Linguistic Theory and Discourse in 'Don Quijote';""Head Dependence in Jerigonza, a Spanish Language Game"; "Flawed Definitions, Neglected Sound Changes, and the Development of Spanish 'atinar'"; "On the Word-Internal Velarization of /n/ in Cuban Radio Broadcasting"; "Blocking of Spanish Reflexives in the Hierarchical Lexicon"; "A Topic Auxiliary in Spanish"; "Spanish as a CP/IP-Absorption Language"; "Notes on the Topic-Focus Articulation"; "Mass Reference in 16th Century Castilian: Gabriel Alonso de Herrera's 'Obra de Agricultura'"; "Lexical Ambiguity Is Not Always Evil: The Example of 'ni-ni'"; "Binding in PPs in Spanish and the Nature of Condition B"; "The Syntax of Contrastive Focus: Evidence from VP-Ellipsis"; "Minimalist Bello: Basic Categories in Bello's Grammar"; "Possessive Dative Constructions and Predicate Inversion in Spanish"; "The Syntax and Semantics of Spanish Accusative 'a'"; "Prenominal Adjectives, 'Wh'-Extraction and Generalized Quantifiers"; "Focus and Subject Inversion in Romance"; "The Agreement System of Los Angeles Spanish and the Media"; "D, AgrO Features and the Direct Object Pronominal System of Andean Spanish"; "Two Types of Scalar Particles: Evidence from Spanish"; and "Diachronic Qualitative Studies on Minimalist Operations: Verbless Locative Inversions in NILs." (MSE)