| 1997 | - | The synthetic modeling of language origins - Steels | :: | 123 |
| 2001 | - | Spontaneous evolution of linguistic structure: an iterated learning model of the emergence of regularity and irregularity - Kirby | :: | 96 |
| 2002 | - | Learning, Bottlenecks and the Evolution of Recursive Syntax - Kirby | :: | 86 |
| 2000 | - | Syntax without Natural Selection: How compositionality emerges from vocabulary in a population of learners - Kirby | :: | 81 |
| 2002 | - | Natural Language from Artificial Life - Kirby | :: | 67 |
| 2002 | - | The negotiation and acquisition of recursive grammars as a result of competition among exemplars - Batali | :: | 66 |
| 1997 | - | Learning and the emergence of coordinated communication - Oliphant,Batali | :: | 61 |
| 2002 | - | The Emergence of Linguistic Structure: An overview of the Iterated Learning Model - Kirby,Hurford | :: | 58 |
| 1999 | - | The learning barrier: Moving from innate to learned systems of communication - Oliphant | :: | 42 |
| 2000 | - | Social transmission favours linguistic generalization - Hurford | :: | 34 |
| 2002 | - | Expression/induction models of language evolution: dimensions and issues - Hurford | :: | 31 |
| 2002 | - | The cultural evolution of communication in a population of neural networks - Smith | :: | 27 |
| 1999 | - | Collective learning and semiotic dynamics - Steels,Kaplan | :: | 25 |
| 1997 | - | Formal Approaches to Innate and Learned Communication: Laying the Foundation for Language - Oliphant | :: | 25 |
| 1999 | - | Syntax out of Learning: the cultural evolution of structured communication in a population of induction algorithms - Kirby | :: | 23 |
| 1998 | - | Spontaneous Lexicon Change - Steels,Kaplan | :: | 22 |
| 2003 | - | Progress in the simulation of emergent communication and language - Wagner,Reggia,Uriagereka,Wilkinson | :: | 22 |
| 2006 | - | The Computational Nature of Language Learning and Evolution - Niyogi | :: | 18 |
| 1999 | - | Self-Organisation in Vowel Systems - de Boer | :: | 17 |
| 2000 | - | Evolutionary Perspectives on Diachronic Syntax - Briscoe | :: | 17 |
| 2000 | - | Language as a Complex Adaptive System - Steels | :: | 16 |
| 2004 | - | From UG to Universals: linguistic adaptation through iterated learning - Kirby,Smith,Brighton | :: | 16 |
| 1998 | - | Language evolution without natural selection: From vocabulary to syntax in a population of learners - Kirby | :: | 15 |
| 2003 | - | The Transmission of Language: models of biological and cultural evolution - Smith | :: | 15 |
| 2000 | - | The Emergence of Grammar in Communicating Autonomous Robotic Agents - Steels | :: | 13 |
| 2002 | - | Learning and the evolution of language: The role of cultural variation and learning costs in the Baldwin Effect - Munroe,Cangelosi | :: | 12 |
| 2002 | - | Natural selection and cultural selection in the evolution of communication - Smith | :: | 12 |
| 1999 | - | The Evolution of Language and Languages - Hurford | :: | 12 |
| 2002 | - | Factors influencing the origins of colour categories - Belpaeme | :: | 11 |
| 2003 | - | Simplicity as a Driving Force in Linguistic Evolution - Brighton | :: | 10 |
| 2004 | - | A computational framework to simulate the co-evolution of language and social structure - Gong,Ke,Minett,Wang | :: | 10 |
| 2001 | - | Emergent syntax: the unremitting value of computational modeling for understanding the origins of complex language - Zuidema | :: | 8 |
| 2003 | - | THSim v3.2: The Talking Heads simulation tool - Vogt | :: | 8 |
| 2002 | - | Methodological Issues in Simulating the Emergence of Language - Tonkes,Wiles | :: | 8 |
| 1997 | - | The origins of syntax in visually grounded robotic agents - Steels | :: | 7 |
| 2003 | - | Compositionality from culture: the role of environment structure and learning bias - Smith | :: | 7 |
| 2000 | - | Selective advantages of syntactic language - a model study - Zuidema,Hogeweg | :: | 7 |
| 2001 | - | On the Origins of Linguistic Structure: Computational models of the evolution of language - Tonkes | :: | 7 |
| 2003 | - | The Language Mosaic and its Evolution - Hurford | :: | 7 |
| 2002 | - | The role of sequential learning in language evolution: Computational and experimental studies - Christiansen,Dale,Ellefson,Conway | :: | 7 |
| 2000 | - | Modelling language-physiology coevolution - Livingstone,Fyfe | :: | 7 |
| 2003 | - | Evolution of an Optimal Lexicon under Constraints from Embodiment - Zuidema,Westermann | :: | 6 |
| 2003 | - | Iterated Learning and Grounding: From Holistic to Compositional Languages - Vogt | :: | 6 |
| 1999 | - | Learning, Bottlenecks and Infinity: a working model of the evolution of syntactic communication - Kirby | :: | 5 |
| 2002 | - | An Introduction to Methods for Simulating the Evolution of Language - Turner | :: | 5 |
| 2008 | - | Language as shaped by the brain - Christiansen,Chater | :: | 5 |
| 2005 | - | How can we explain the emergence of a language that benefits the hearer but not the speaker? - Mirolli,Parisi | :: | 5 |
| 1998 | - | A New Approach to Class Formation in Multi-Agent Simulations of Language Evolution - Kaplan | :: | 5 |
| 2003 | - | A Distributed Learning Algorithm for Communication Development - de Jong,Steels | :: | 5 |
| 1998 | - | The Origin of Linguistic Categories - Steels | :: | 4 |
| 2004 | - | Self-organization and Language Evolution: System, Population and Individual - Ke | :: | 4 |
| 2002 | - | Simulated Evolution of Language: a Review of the Field - Perfors | :: | 4 |
| 2000 | - | Evolving learnable languages - Tonkes,Blair,Wiles | :: | 4 |
| 2004 | - | Establishing conventional communication systems: Is common knowledge necessary? - Barr | :: | 4 |
| 2000 | - | The Emergence of Syntax - Hurford | :: | 4 |
| 2000 | - | Evolution of syntax in groups of agents - Zuidema | :: | 4 |
| 2003 | - | Evolving Communication through the Inference of Meaning - Smith | :: | 3 |
| 2000 | - | Learners are losers: Natural selection and learning in the evolution of communication - Smith | :: | 3 |
| 2004 | - | The Role of Learning and Development in Language Evolution: A Connectionist Perspective - Christiansen,Dale | :: | 3 |
| 2000 | - | Semiotic schemata: Selection units for linguistic cultural evolution - Kaplan | :: | 3 |
| 2001 | - | Robotic Experiments on the Emergence of a Lexicon - Van Looveren | :: | 3 |
| 2007 | - | The emergence of simple languages in an experimental coordination game - Selten,Warglien | :: | 3 |
| 2002 | - | Toward Automated Evolution of Agent Communication Languages - Gmytrasiewicz,Summers,Gopal | :: | 3 |
| 1999 | - | An Emergence of Coordinated Communication in Populations of Agents - Kvasnicka,Pospichal | :: | 3 |
| 2003 | - | Language evolution and change - Christiansen,Dale | :: | 3 |
| 2005 | - | The Major Transitions in the Evolution of Language - Zuidema | :: | 2 |
| 2002 | - | An Agent-Based Evolutionary Computing Approach to Memory-Based Syntactic Parsing of Natural Language - Pauw | :: | 2 |
| 2008 | - | Coping with Combinatorial Uncertainty in Word Learning: A Flexible Usage-Based Model - Wellens | :: | 2 |
| 2002 | - | The constructive approach to the dynamical view of language - Hashimoto | :: | 2 |
| 2002 | - | Auto-Organization and Emergence of Shared Language Structure - Hutchins,Hazlehurst | :: | 2 |
| 2003 | - | Computer Models of the Evolution of Language and Languages - Livingstone | :: | 2 |
| 2005 | - | The Evolution of Language: A Comparative Review - Fitch | :: | 2 |
| 2002 | - | Evolution of language diversity: the survival of the fitness - Solan,Ruppin,Horn,Edelman | :: | 1 |
| 2000 | - | Simulated Evolution of Communication: The Emergence of Meaning - Perfors | :: | 1 |
| 1997 | - | Simulated Evolution of Language and Language Processors - Beaver | :: | 1 |
| 2001 | - | From Cultural Selection to Genetic Selection: A Framework for the Evolution of Language - Dor,Jablonka | :: | 1 |
| 2003 | - | Learning biases and language evolution - Smith | :: | 1 |
| 2005 | - | Design and Performance of Pre-Grammatical Language Games - Van Looveren | :: | 1 |
| 2006 | - | Innateness and culture in the evolution of language - Dowman,Kirby,Griffiths | :: | 1 |
| 2001 | - | Towards formal models of embodiment and self-organization of language - Zuidema,Westermann | :: | 1 |
| 2006 | - | Noisy Preferential Attachment and Language Evolution - Swarup,Gasser | :: | 1 |
| 2005 | - | Conceptual complexity and the brain: understanding language origins - Schoenemann | :: | |
| 2000 | - | Towards Automating the Evolution of Linguistic Competence in Artificial Agents - Gmytrasiewicz,Gopal | :: | |
| 1998 | - | Getting the Point Across: The Effect of Recurrent Network Biases on the Evolution of a Simple Language - Tonkes | :: | |
| 2005 | - | Iterated Learning: The Exemplar-based Learning Approach - Eddy | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Evolving Distributed Representations for Language with Self-Organizing Maps - Levy,Kirby | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Language Origin from an Emergentist Perspective - Ke,Holland | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Computational Approaches to Linguistic Consensus - Wang | :: | |
| 2007 | - | The evolution of meaning-space structure through iterated learning - Kirby | :: | |
| 2007 | - | Computational Models of Real World Phonological Change - Choudhury | :: | |
| 2002 | - | The View From Elsewhere: Perspectives on ALife Modeling - Wheeler,Bullock,Paolo,Noble,Bedau,Husbands,Kirby,Seth | :: | |
| 2001 | - | On the Relevance of Language Evolution Models for Cognitive Science - Zuidema,Westermann | :: | |
| 2000 | - | Incremental Simulations of the Emergence of Grammar: Towards Complex Sentence-Meaning Mappings - Popescu-Belis,Batali | :: | |
| 2004 | - | Imitation Is Not Enough for Lexicon Learning - Fleischer,Shapiro | :: | |
| 2002 | - | Language evolution and change - Christiansen | :: | |
| 2008 | - | Analogy and Multi-Level Selection in the Formation of a Case Grammar. A Case Study in Fluid Construction Grammar - van Trijp | :: | |
| 2003 | - | Modelling the Emergence of Case - Moy,Manandhar | :: | |
| 1999 | - | Social patterns restrict evolving patterns - Zuidema | :: | |
| 2007 | - | Protolanguages That Are Semi-holophrastic - Dowman | :: | |