____________ . 2007. Music and Probability. MIT Press.
____________ . 2001. The Cognition of Basic Musical Structures. MIT Press.
____________ . In press. "Hypermetrical Transitions." Music Theory Spectrum.
____________ . In press. "Key Structure in 'Das alte Jahr vergangen ist'." Journal of Music Theory.
____________ . 2008. "A Probabilistic Model of Melody Perception." Cognitive Science 32 #2, 418-444.
____________ . 2008. "The Tonal Properties of Pitch-Class Sets." Computing in Musicology 15, 24-38.
____________ and Elizabeth West Marvin. 2008. "Pitch-class Distribution and the Identification of Key." Music Perception 25 #2, 193-212.
____________ . 2007. "The Melodic-Harmonic 'Divorce' in Rock." Popular Music 26 #2, 323-342.
____________ . 2004. "Bayesian Models of Musical Structure and Cognition." Musicae Scientiae 8 #2, 175-205. [PDF]
____________ . 2004. "An Evaluation System for Metrical Models." Computer Music Journal 28 #3, 28-44. [PDF]
____________ . 2004. "Communicative Pressure and the Evolution of Musical Styles." Music Perception 21 #3, 313-37. [PDF]
____________ . 2003. "End-Accented Phrases: An Analytical Exploration." Journal of Music Theory 47 #1, 125-54.
____________ & Christopher Bartlette. 2002. "Parallelism as a Factor in Metrical Analysis." Music Perception 20 #2, 117-49. [PDF]
____________ . 2002. "A Bayesian Approach to Key-Finding." In C. Anagnostopoulou, M. Ferrand, & A. Smaill (Eds.), Music and Artificial Intelligence (pp. 195-206). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
____________ . 2001. "The Question of Purpose in Music Theory: Description, Suggestion, and Explanation." Current Musicology, 66, 66-85. [PDF]
____________ . 2000. "The Line of Fifths", Music Analysis, 19 #3, 289-319.
____________ . 2000. "Meter and Grouping in African Music: A View from Music Theory", Ethnomusicology, 44 #1, 65-96.
____________ . 1999. "What's Key for Key? The Krumhansl-Schmuckler Key-Finding Algorithm Reconsidered." Music Perception 17 #1, 65-100.
____________ & Daniel Sleator. 1999. "Modeling Meter and Harmony: A Preference Rule Approach." Computer Music Journal 15 #1, 10-27.
____________ . 1999. "Syncopation in Rock: A Perceptual Perspective." Popular Music 18 #2, 19-40.
____________ . 1997. "An Algorithm for Harmonic Analysis." Music Perception 15 #1, 31-68.
____________ . 1995. "Motivic Perception and Modularity." Music Perception 13 #2, 141-69.
____________ . 2005. Review of Empirical Musicology: Aims, Methods, Prospects, ed. by Eric Clarke & Nicholas Cook. Music Perception 23, 91-96.
____________ . 2003. Review of Tonal Pitch Space, by Fred Lerdahl. Musicae Scientiae 7, 141-55.
____________ . 2000. Review of Music, Cognition, and Computerized Sound, ed. Perry Cook. Music Theory Spectrum 22, 264-6.
____________ . 1999. Review of Musical Languages, by Joseph Swain. Music Theory Online 5.3.
____________ . 1998. Review of African Drumming, by Kofi Agawu. Current Musicology 62, 69-83.
____________ , "Hypermetrical Ambiguity in Sonata Form Closing Themes." Expanded version of paper presented at Society of Music Theory annual meeting, Fall 1996. [PDF]
__________ . 2008. "Dependency Length Minimization in Natural and Artificial Languages." Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 15, 256-282.
__________ . 2007. "Minimization of Dependency Length in Written English." Cognition 105, 300-333. [PDF of corrected proofs]
__________ . 2005. "The Dependency Structure of Coordinate Phrases: A Corpus Approach." Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 34, 577-601. [PDF]
__________ . 2003. "Ambiguity Avoidance in English Relative Clauses." Language 79, 464-84.
Daniel Sleator and ____________ . 1993. "Parsing English with A Link Grammar." Proceedings of the Third Annual Workshop on Parsing Technologies..
John Lafferty, Daniel Sleator and ____________ . 1992. "Grammatical Trigrams: A Probabilistic Model of Link Grammar." Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Probabilistic Approaches to Natural Language.