Articles are: -Tones and voice quality in modern northern Vietnamese: Instrumental case studies, by NGUYEN Van Loi and Jerold A. EDMONDSON -Kyansittha and the Indic words in Myanmar from Mon, by NAI PAN HLA -Affixes in Katu of the Lao P.D.R., by Nancy A. COSTELLO -An acoustic study of Battambang Khmer vowels, by Ratree WAYLAND -Prepositional vs. directional coverbs in Vietnamese, by SOPHANA Srichampa -Some Kam-Tai loan-words in Mon-Khmer languages, by IN Xiaohang -Expressing comparison in the Tai languages, by Lev N. MOREV -Numeral classifiers in Sgaw Karen, by SURIYA Ratanakul -Diachronic evolution of initial consonants in Buyang, by LI Jingfang and ZHOU Guoyan