A collection of conference papers includes: "More on Arabic Vowel Harmony: A Metrical-Suprasegmental Approach" (Issam Abu-Salim); "The Phonological Assimilation of Borrowing" (Saleh Suleiman); "On Getting a Head: A Problem in Dependency Grammar" (Jonathan Owens); "Negation in Jordanian Arabic: A Developmental Study" (Oglah Smadi); "Problems in Teaching Arabic to Foreigners" (text in Arabic) (Fayiz Al-Hamad); and "Sex Differentiation and Linguistic Variations. A Case Study: Spoken Arabic in Amman" (Hassan Abdel-Jawad). (MSE)