In Prep

Portelance, E. & Jasbi, M. “On the goals of linguistic theory”: Revisiting Chomskyan theories in the era of AI

Under Review

Liu, Z., Jasbi, M., Prud'hommeaux, E. How should I Build a Training Set? A Case Study of POS Tagging

Jasbi, M., Bermudez, N., Zhang, Y., Siro, R., & Davidson, K. Universality in the Interpretation of Logical Constructions: Evidence from English, Hungarian, Mandarin Chinese, and Spanish

Reese, S., Jasbi, M., & Morgan, E. Bayesian Modeling of Quantifier Cardinal Reference Variability: The Case of English "Few", "Several", and "Many"

Liu, Z. & Jasbi, M. The Development of English Negative Constructions and Communicative Functions

Jasbi, M. The Semantics of Plurals in Persian

Felton, C., & Jasbi, M. Quantifying Non-Implicature Sources of Disjunction Exclusivity. Proceedings of Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM 3)

Qiu, H., Felton, C., Houghton, Z., & Jasbi, M. Experimental Paradigms on Scalar Implicature Estimation. Proceedings of Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM 3)

In Press

Jasbi, M., & Samavati, F. Leaky Grammars in Instructed Second Language Acquisition. In Azita Taleghani and Pouneh Shabani Jadidi (Eds.), Persian Second Language Pedagogy: New Trends and Innovations

Published

Portelance, E. and Jasbi, M. (2024), The Roles of Neural Networks in Language Acquisition. Language and Linguistics Compass, 18: e70001. https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.70001

Duval, C., Booker, N., Brotherton, C., Diaz, A. & Jasbi, M. (2024). Using constructed languages to introduce and teach linguistics. Linguistics Vanguard, 10(s3), 201-214. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2024-0091
[Preprint]

Reese, S. J, Liu, Z., Jasbi, M., & Morgan, E. (2024). Frequency-Dependent Regularization in Mandarin Elastic Word Length. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7x6670f0

Jasbi, M., Bermudez, N., & Davidson, K. (2023). Default biases in the interpretation of English negation, conjunction, and disjunction. In T. Knowlton, F. Schwarz, & A. Papafragou (Eds.), Proceedings of Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM 2). Vol. 2. (pp. 129-141). https://doi.org/10.3765/elm.2.5382

Jasbi, M., Jaggi, A., Clark, E. V., & Frank, M. C. (2022). Context-Dependent Learning of Linguistic Disjunction. Journal of Child Language, 51(1), 1–36. doi:10.1017/S0305000922000502

Jasbi, M., & Frank, M. C. (2021) Adults’ and Children’s Comprehension of Linguistic Disjunction. Collabra: Psychology, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.27702
[Github Link]

Liu, Z., & Jasbi, M. (2021). English Negative Constructions and Communicative Functions in Child Language. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 43. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0kj5j80c
[Github Link]

Jasbi, M., McDermott-Hinman, A., Davidson, K., & Carey, S. (2021). Parents’ and Children’s Production of English Negation. In D. Dionne & L. Vidal Covas (Eds.) Proceedings of the 45th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 360-373. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. Retrieved from https://www.lingref.com/bucld/45/BUCLD45-28.pdf
[Gihub Link]

Alstott, J., & Jasbi, M. (2020). Lexicalization of quantificational forces in adverbial and determiner domains. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 42. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2p908196

Tovly Deutsch, Masoud Jasbi, and Stuart Shieber. 2020. Linguistic Features for Readability Assessment. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, pages 1–17, Seattle, WA, USA → Online. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2020.bea-1.1

Jasbi, M. (2020). The suffix that makes Farsi nouns unique. In R. K. Larson, S. Moradi, & V. Samiian (Eds.), Advances in Iranian Linguistics, (pp. 107–118), John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.351.06jas

Jasbi, M. (2020). The meaning of the Farsi object marker "ra". In R. K. Larson, S. Moradi, & V. Samiian (Eds.), Advances in Iranian Linguistics, (pp. 107–118), John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.351.07jas

Jasbi, M. (2020). Some Unique Semantic Properties of Persian. In Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy of Persian. Routledge.

Jasbi, M., Waldon, B., & Degen, J. (2019) Linking hypothesis and number of response options modulate inferred scalar implicature rate. Frontiers in Psychology, Vol. 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00189
[Github Link]

Jasbi, M., Clark, E. V., Potts, C., Frank, M. C., Markman, E. M., & Stanford University Department of Linguistics. (2018). Learning disjunction. Dissertation, [Stanford University]. http://purl.stanford.edu/qz846xz9663
[Github Link]

Jasbi, M., Jaggi, A., & Frank, M. C. (2018). Conceptual and Prosodic Cues in Child-directed Speech can Help Children Learn the Meaning of Disjunction. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 40. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0bz8t9cc
[Github Link]

Jasbi, M., & Frank, M. C. (2017). The Semantics and Pragmatics of Logical Connectives: Adults’ and Children’sInterpretations of And and Or in a Guessing Game. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 39. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1t0472h6
[Github Link]

Jasbi, M. (2016). Three types of indefinites in Persian: Simple, Complex, and Antidefinite. In Mary Moroney, Carol-Rose Little, Dan Burgdorf, and Jacob Collard, (Eds.), Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory 26, (pp. 244-263). Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications. https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v26i0.3807

Jasbi, M. (2016). The Acquisition of Projective Content: Children's comprehension of the English presupposition trigger "too". In J. Scott & D. Waughtal (Eds.), The 40th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development online proceedings supplement. https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v26i0.3807

Jasbi, M. (2014). The Semantics of Differential Object Marking in Persian. Qualifying Paper, Stanford University
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