Balancing Evolution and Acquisition in Theoretical Linguistics (2022)
Book Chapter
Dupre, G. (2022). Balancing Evolution and Acquisition in Theoretical Linguistics. In Philosophical Approaches to Language and Communication. https://doi.org/10.3726/b19786

The history of generative linguistics is a history of a tension between, on the one hand, incorporating all the complexity suggested by detailed descriptions of natural languages and the innate knowledge humans bring to the task of acquisition, and o... Read More about Balancing Evolution and Acquisition in Theoretical Linguistics.

Linguistics and the explanatory economy (2021)
Journal Article
Dupre, G. (2021). Linguistics and the explanatory economy. Synthese, 177 - 219. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02290-x

I present a novel, collaborative, methodology for linguistics: what I call the ‘explanatory economy’. According to this picture, multiple models/theories are evaluated based on the extent to which they complement one another with respect to data cove... Read More about Linguistics and the explanatory economy.

What would it mean for natural language to be the language of thought? (2020)
Journal Article
Dupre, G. (2020). What would it mean for natural language to be the language of thought?. Linguistics and Philosophy, 773 - 812. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-020-09304-9

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Traditional arguments against the identification of the language of thought with natural language assume a picture of natural language which is largely inconsistent with that suggested by contemporary linguist... Read More about What would it mean for natural language to be the language of thought?.