| 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 |
| 2003 | - | Progress in the simulation of emergent communication and language - Wagner,Reggia,Uriagereka,Wilkinson | :: | 22 |
| 1997 | - | Recursive inconsistencies are hard to learn: A connectionist perspective on universal word order correlations - Christiansen,Devlin | :: | 18 |
| 1998 | - | Language evolution without natural selection: From vocabulary to syntax in a population of learners - Kirby | :: | 15 |
| 1999 | - | Toward a connectionist model of recursion in human linguistic performance - Christiansen,Chater | :: | 14 |
| 2007 | - | Innateness and culture in the evolution of language - Kirby,Dowman,Griffiths | :: | 14 |
| 2005 | - | Cultural Selection for Learnability: Three principles underlying the view that language adapts to be learnable - Brighton,Kirby,Smith | :: | 13 |
| 1999 | - | The Evolution of Language and Languages - Hurford | :: | 12 |
| 2003 | - | Simplicity as a Driving Force in Linguistic Evolution - Brighton | :: | 10 |
| 2005 | - | Language as an evolutionary system - Brighton,Smith,Kirby | :: | 10 |
| 2002 | - | The role of sequential learning in language evolution: Computational and experimental studies - Christiansen,Dale,Ellefson,Conway | :: | 7 |
| 1999 | - | Co-Evolution of Language Size and the Critical Period - Hurford,Kirby | :: | 7 |
| 1996 | - | Function, Selection and Innateness: the Emergence of Language Universals - Kirby | :: | 6 |
| 2008 | - | Language as shaped by the brain - Christiansen,Chater | :: | 5 |
| 2004 | - | Self-organization and Language Evolution: System, Population and Individual - Ke | :: | 4 |
| 2003 | - | Evolving Communication through the Inference of Meaning - Smith | :: | 3 |
| 2005 | - | The Major Transitions in the Evolution of Language - Zuidema | :: | 2 |
| 2006 | - | Understanding Linguistic Evolution by Visualizing the Emergence of Topographic Mappings - Brighton,Kirby | :: | 2 |
| 2007 | - | The evolution of language - Kirby | :: | 1 |
| 2006 | - | Evolution as a Constraint on Theories of Syntax: The Case against Minimalism - Parker | :: | 1 |
| 2002 | - | Modeling Syntactic Devices: An Exploration of Language Evolution from Connectionist and Memetic Perspectives - Lupyan | :: | |
| 2005 | - | Conceptual complexity and the brain: understanding language origins - Schoenemann | :: | |
| 2002 | - | The View From Elsewhere: Perspectives on ALife Modeling - Wheeler,Bullock,Paolo,Noble,Bedau,Husbands,Kirby,Seth | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Language Origin from an Emergentist Perspective - Ke,Holland | :: | |