Mohammad Alhawary is professor of Arabic linguistics and second language acquisition at the University of Michigan. He is the editor of the Journal of Arabic Linguistics Tradition and author of many works, including Modern Standard Arabic Grammar: A Learner's Guide, Arabic Grammar in Context, and Arabic Second Language Acquisition of Morphosyntax.

• Editor’s Note vAcknowledgments viiArticlesProcessing Passive Constructions in Arabic and English: A Crosslanguage Priming Study 1by Michael Grosvald and Tariq KhwailehVoice Onset Time in Arabic and English Stop Consonants 29by D. Eve Olson and Rachel Hayes- HarbWhy Standard Arabic Is Not a Second Language for Native Speakers of Arabic 49by Abdulkafi Albirini“They don’t speak Arabic”: Producing and Reproducing Language Ideologies toward Moroccan Arabic 73by Dris SoulaimaniThe Effects of Songs on Vocabulary Retention in Foreign Language Acquisition: The Case of Arabic 101by Guilnard Moufarrej and Charbel SalamehRhetoric of Argumentation in Al- Mutanabb?’s ‘Ayniyya Poem: “Others Are Deceived by Most of These People” 125by Mufleh Al- HweitatBook ReviewsMastering Arabic 1–2, 3rd ed. Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar. 151Reviewed by Mahmoud AliArabic as One Language: Integrating Dialect in the Arabic Language Curriculum. Edited by Mahmoud Al- Batal. 159Reviewed by Roger AllenArabic Literature for the Classroom: Teaching Methods, Theories, Themes and Texts. Edited by Muhsin J. al- Musawi. 163Reviewed by Sawad HussainThe Female Suffering Body: Illness and Disability in Modern Arabic Literature. Abir Hamdar. 167Reviewed by Aman AttiehMonarch of the Square: An Anthology of Muhammad Zafzaf’s Short Stories. Translated by Mbarek Sryfi and Roger Allen. 171Reviewed by Katrien Vanpee