| 2003 | - | The Transmission of Language: models of biological and cultural evolution - Smith | :: | 15 |
| 2003 | - | Grammatical Assimilation - Briscoe | :: | 10 |
| 2003 | - | Simplicity as a Driving Force in Linguistic Evolution - Brighton | :: | 10 |
| 2005 | - | The Evolution of Language: A Comparative Review - Fitch | :: | 2 |
| 2006 | - | Working backwards from modern language to proto-grammar - Johansson | :: | 1 |
| 2008 | - | What do creoles and pidgins tell us about the evolution of languages? - Mufwene | :: |