John Harris: some publications

Harris, J. (to appear). Wide-domain r-effects in English. Journal of Linguistics.

Harris, J. (2012). The foot as a phonotactic domain: aw and wa in English.

Harris, J. (2011). Deletion. In Marc van Oostendorp, Colin Ewen, Beth Hume & Keren Rice (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Phonology. Oxford: Wiley.

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Harris, J. (2009). Why final devoicing is weakening. In K. Nasukawa & P. Backley (eds.), Strength Relations in Phonology, 9-46. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
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Harris, J., N. Gallon & van der Lely, H. (2008). Prosodic complexity and processing complexity: evidence from language impairment. Revista da Associação Brasileira de Lingüística.
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Gallon, N., Harris, J., & van der Lely, H. (2007). Non-word repetition: An investigation of phonological complexity in children with Grammatical SLI. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics 21.435-55.
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Harris, J. (2007). Representation. In Paul de Lacy (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology,119-138. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Harris, J. (2006). Wide-domainr-effects in English. UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 18.
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Harris, J. (2006). The phonology of being understood: further arguments against sonority. Lingua116. 1483-1494.
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Harris, J. (2005). Vowel reduction as information loss. In P. Carr, J. Durand & C. J. Ewen (eds.), Headhood, elements, specification and contrastivity, 119-132. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
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Harris, J. (2004). Release the captive coda: the foot as a domain of phonetic interpretation. In J. Local, R. Ogden & R. Temple (eds.), Phonetic interpretation: Papers in Laboratory Phonology 6, 103-129. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Harris, J. (2003). Grammar-internal and grammar-external assimilation.Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona 3-9 August 2003, vol.1, 281-284. Causal Productions.
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Harris, J. & E-A. Urua (2001). Lenition degrades information: consonant allophony in Ibibio. Speech, Hearing and Language: Work in Progress13. 72-105.
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Harris, J. & G. Lindsey (2000). Vowel patterns in mind and sound.In Noel Burton-Roberts, Philip Carr & Gerry Docherty (eds.), Phonological knowledge: conceptual and empirical issues, 185-205. OxfordUniversityPress.
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Harris, J., J. Watson & S. Bates (1999). Prosody and melody in vowel disorder.Journal of Linguistics 35. 489-525. To be reprinted in M. Ball & T. Powell (eds.), Clinical linguistics: critical concepts in linguistics., 4 vols.
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Harris, J. (1998). Phonological universals and phonological disorder.In Evy Visch-Brink & Roelien Bastiaanse (eds.), Linguistic levels in aphasia: Proceedings of the RuG-SAN-VKL Conference on Aphasiology, 91-117. San Diego, CA: Singular Publishing Group.

Harris, J. & E. Gussmann (1998). Final codas: why the west was wrong. In Eugeniusz Cyran (ed.),Structure and interpretation in phonology: studies in phonology, 139-162. Lublin: Folia.
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Harris, J. (1997). Licensing Inheritance: an integrated theory of neutralisation.Phonology14. 315-370.

Harris, J. (1997). Phonological systems in collision in the north of Ireland.In Hildegard L.C. Tristram (ed.), The Celtic Englishes, 201-223. Heidelberg: Winter.

Harris, J. (1996). On the trail of short u. English World-Wide 17. 1-42.

Harris, J. (1996). Phonological representations are redundancy-free and fully interpretable. In Jacques Durand & Bernard Laks (eds.), Current trends in phonology: models and methods, vol 1, 305-332. Manchester: European Studies Research Institute.
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Harris, J. (1996). Syntactic variation and dialect divergence.In Rajendra Singh (ed.), Towardsa critical sociolinguistics, 31-57. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Republished from Journal of Linguistics 20 (1984). 303-27.

Harris, J. & G. Lindsey (1995) The elements of phonological representation. In Jacques Durand & Francis Katamba (eds.), Frontiers of phonology: atoms, structures, derivations, 34-79. Harlow, Essex: Longman.
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Harris, J. & G. Lindsey (1995). Segmental decomposition and the signal.In Wolfgang U. Dressler, Martin Prinzhorn & John R. Rennison (eds),Phonologica1992: proceedings of the 7th International Phonology Meeting, 97-106. Turin: Rosenberg& Sellier.

Harris, J. (1994). English sound structure. Oxford: Blackwell.

Harris, J. (1993). The grammar of Irish English. In James Milroy & Lesley Milroy (eds.), Real English: the grammar of English dialects in the British Isles, 139-186. Harlow: Longman.

Harris, J. (1991). Conservatism versus substratal transfer in Irish English.In Peter Trudgill & J.K. Chambers (eds), Dialects of English: studies in grammatical variation, 192-213. Harlow, Essex: Longman.

Harris, J. (1990). Segmental complexity and phonological government.Phonology7. 255-300.

Harris, J. & J. Kaye (1990). A tale of two cities: Londonglottalling and New York Citytapping. The Linguistic Review 7. 251-274.

Harris, J. (1990). Derived phonological contrasts. In Susan Ramsaran (ed.),Studies in the pronunciation of English: a commemorative volume in honour of A.C. Gimson, 87-105. London: Routledge.

Harris, J. & G. Lindsey (1990). Phonetic interpretation in generative grammar.UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 2. 355-69.

Harris, J. (1989). Towards a lexical analysis of sound change in progress. Journal of Linguistics 25. 35-56.

Harris, J. (1987). Non-structure-preserving rules in Lexical Phonology: southeastern Bantu harmony. Lingua 73. 79-116.

Harris, J. (1987). A hierarchical model of length variation in vowels.In W.U. Dressler, H.C. Luschützky, O.E. Pfeiffer & J.R. Rennison (eds),Phonologica1984: proceedings of the 5th International Phonology Meeting, 54-9. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversityPress.

Harris, J. (1987). On doing comparative reconstruction with genetically unrelated languages. In A.G. Ramat, O. Carruba & G. Bernini (eds), Papers from the VIIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, 267-82. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Harris, J. (1986). Expanding the superstrate: habitual aspect markers in Atlantic Englishes. English World-Wide 7. 171-99.

Harris, J. (1985). Phonological variation and change.Cambridge: CambridgeUniversityPress.

Harris, J. & P. Cottam (1985). Phonetic features and phonological features in speech assessment.British Journal of Disorders in Communication 20. 61-74.

Harris, J. (1984). English in the north of Ireland. In Peter Trudgill (ed.), Language in the British Isles, 115-34.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Harris, J. & J. Milroy (1980). When is a merger not a merger? English World-Wide1. 30-43.

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