Publications

Jesse A. Harris (2021). Extended perspective shift and discourse economy in language processing. To appear Frontiers - Special issue on Perspective Taking in Language.

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Jesse A. Harris, Stephanie Rich, Ian Rigby (2021). Contextual constraint and lexical competition: Revisiting biased misperception during reading. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

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Jesse A. Harris (2021). Acceptability Judgments at the Syntax­-Semantics Interface. To appear in Grant Goodall (Ed.), Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Syntax.

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Chie Nakamura, Jesse A. Harris, Sun-Ah Jun (2020). Learning to Anticipate Contrast with Prosody: A Visual World Study with L2 Learners. Proceedings of the 10th Speech Prosody International Conference.

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Jesse A. Harris, Katy Carlson (2019). Correlate not optional: PP sprouting and parallelism in 'much less' ellipsis. Glossa: A journal of general linguistics.

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Jesse A. Harris, Natasha Korotkova (2019). Preference for single events guides perception in Russian: A phonemic restoration study. In The Proceedings of the 54th Annual Chicago Linguistics Society.

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Jesse A. Harris (2019). Locality and Alternatives on Demand: Resolving discourse-linked wh-phrases in sluiced structures. In Grammatical Approaches to Language Processing - Essays in Honor of Lyn Frazier.

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Jesse A. Harris, Alexandra Lawn, Marju Kaps (2019). Investigating sound and structure in concert: A pupillometry study of relative clause attachment. The 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

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Jesse A. Harris, Sun-Ah Jun (2019). Using pupillometry to assess prosodic alignment in language comprehension. The International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS).

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Chie Nakamura, Jesse A. Harris, Sun-Ah Jun (2019). Listeners' beliefs influence prosodic adaptation: Anticipatory use of contrastive accent during visual search. The International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS).

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Chie Nakamura, Jesse A. Harris, Sun-Ah Jun, Yuki Hirose (2019). L2 adaptation to uninformative prosody during structural analysis: A visual world study. BUCLD 43: Proceedings of the 43rd annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Medford, MA: Cascadilla Press.

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Jesse A. Harris, Katy Carlson (2018). Information structure preferences in focus-sensitive ellipsis: How defaults persist. Language & Speech, 61, 480-512.

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Katy Carlson, Jesse A. Harris (2018). Zero-Adjective contrast in much-less ellipsis: the advantage for parallel syntax. Language, Cognition, & Neuroscience, 1, 77-97.

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Jesse A. Harris (2016). Processing let alone coordination in silent reading. Lingua, 169, 70-94.

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Jesse A. Harris, Katy Carlson (2016). Keep it local (and final): Remnant preferences in 'let alone' ellipsis. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69, 1278-1301.

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Jesse A. Harris, Sun-Ah Jun, Adam J. Royer (2016). Implicit prosody pulls its weight: Recovery from garden path sentences. In the Proceedings of Speech Prosody 8, 207-211.

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Jesse A. Harris (2015). Structure modulates similarity-based interference in sluicing: An eye tracking study. In Frontiers in Psychology, 6, e1839.

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Jesse A. Harris (2014). Who 'else' but Sarah?. In Connectedness: Papers in Celebration of Sarah VanWagenen. UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics, 175–187.

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Joel Fishbein, Jesse A. Harris (2014). Making sense of Kafka: Structural biases induce early sense commitment for metonyms. Journal of Memory and Language, 76, 94–112.

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Jesse A. Harris (2014). Signaling Non-Speaker commitment in Transparent Free Relatives: A paired Speaker-Hearer judgment study. In The Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, 71-79.

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Lyn Frazier, Charles Clifton, Jr., Katy Carlson, Jesse A. Harris (2014). Standing alone with prosodic help. In Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 28, 1519-1544.

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Jesse A. Harris (2013). Interjective what. In The Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 23, 19-39.

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Jesse A. Harris, Charles Clifton, Jr., Frazier, Lyn (2012). Processing and domain selection: Quantificational variability effects. Language and Cognitive Processes, 28, 1519-1544.

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Jesse A. Harris (2012). On the Semantics of Domain Adjectives in English. In the Proceedings of the 30th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 162–172.

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Jesse A. Harris, Margaret Grant (2011). University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics: Processing Linguistic Structure. GLSA Publications, volume 38.

Jesse A. Harris, Christopher Potts (2011). Predicting perspectival orientation for appositives. In the Proceedings from the 45th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 207–221.

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Seth Cable, Jesse A. Harris (2011). On the Grammatical Status of PP-Pied-Piping in English: Results from Sentence-Rating Experiments. University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics: Processing Linguistic Structure, 38, 1-22.

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Jesse A. Harris (2011). Extraction from Coordinate Structures: Evidence from Language Processing. In the Proceedings from the 45th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 73-88.

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Jesse A. Harris, Christopher Potts (2010). Perspective-shifting with appositives and expressives. Linguistics & Philosophy, 36, 523–552.

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Maria Biezma, Jesse A. Harris (2009). University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers: Papers in Pragmatics. University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers: Papers in Pragmatics, volume 39.

Jesse A. Harris (2009). Epithets and perspective shift: experimental evidence. University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers: Papers in Pragmatics, 39, 49-76.

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Jesse A. Harris, Liina Pylkkanen, Brian McElree, Steven Frisson (2008). The cost of question concealment: evidence from eyetracking and MEG. Brain & Language, 107, 44–61.

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Jesse A. Harris (2008). On the Syntax and Semantics of Heim's Ambiguity. In the Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 194–202.

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