| 1990 | - | Natural language and natural selection - Pinker,Bloom | :: | 168 |
| 2002 | - | Natural Language from Artificial Life - Kirby | :: | 67 |
| 1999 | - | The learning barrier: Moving from innate to learned systems of communication - Oliphant | :: | 42 |
| 2000 | - | Grammatical Acquisition: Inductive Bias and Coevolution of Language and the Language Acquisition Device - Briscoe | :: | 36 |
| 1991 | - | The Evolution of the Critical Period for Language Acquisition - Hurford | :: | 31 |
| 1997 | - | Evolutionary Consequences of Language Learning - Niyogi,Berwick | :: | 29 |
| 1999 | - | Possible stages in the evolution of the language capacity - Jackendoff | :: | 26 |
| 1997 | - | Formal Approaches to Innate and Learned Communication: Laying the Foundation for Language - Oliphant | :: | 25 |
| 2002 | - | Grammatical Acquisition and Linguistic Selection - Briscoe | :: | 22 |
| 2000 | - | Evolutionary Perspectives on Diachronic Syntax - Briscoe | :: | 17 |
| 2003 | - | The Transmission of Language: models of biological and cultural evolution - Smith | :: | 15 |
| 1998 | - | Language evolution without natural selection: From vocabulary to syntax in a population of learners - Kirby | :: | 15 |
| 1999 | - | The Evolution of Language and Languages - Hurford | :: | 12 |
| 2005 | - | An Experimental Study of the Emergence of Human Communication Systems - Galantucci | :: | 9 |
| 2003 | - | Bifurcation Analysis of the Fully Symmetric Language Dynamical Equation - Mitchener | :: | 8 |
| 2005 | - | A Bayesian view of language evolution by iterated learning - Griffiths,Kalish | :: | 6 |
| 2005 | - | Regularizing Unpredictable Variation: The Roles of Adult and Child Learners in Language Formation and Change - Hudson-Kam,Newport | :: | 5 |
| 2005 | - | The emergence of grammar: Systematic structure in a new language - Sandler,Meir,Padden,Aronoff | :: | 4 |
| 2008 | - | Theoretical and empirical evidence for the impact of inductive biases on cultural evolution - Griffiths,Kalish,Lewandowsky | :: | 4 |
| 2002 | - | Simulated Evolution of Language: a Review of the Field - Perfors | :: | 4 |
| 2002 | - | Toward Automated Evolution of Agent Communication Languages - Gmytrasiewicz,Summers,Gopal | :: | 3 |
| 2003 | - | Computer Models of the Evolution of Language and Languages - Livingstone | :: | 2 |
| 2003 | - | A Mathematical Model of Human Languages: The Interaction of Game Dynamics and Learning Processes - Mitchener | :: | 2 |
| 2004 | - | Language birth and death - Mufwene | :: | 2 |
| 1999 | - | Cognitive linguistics and connectionist models of language acquisition - Smith | :: | 1 |
| 2003 | - | Creole Viewed from Population Dynamics - Nakamura,Hashimoto,Tojo | :: | 1 |
| 2000 | - | Simulated Evolution of Communication: The Emergence of Meaning - Perfors | :: | 1 |
| 2006 | - | Language and Morality: Evolution, Altruism and Linguistic Moral Mechanisms - Poulshock | :: | |
| 2008 | - | Primate social knowledge and the origins of language - Seyfarth,Cheney | :: | |
| 2005 | - | A Simulation of Language Change in the Presence of Non-Idealized Syntax - Mitchener | :: | |
| 2008 | - | What do creoles and pidgins tell us about the evolution of languages? - Mufwene | :: | |
| 2002 | - | Negotiation as a Mechanism for Language Evolution - Gmytrasiewicz | :: | |