| 1999 | - | The evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer | :: | 93 |
| 2000 | - | Syntax without Natural Selection: How compositionality emerges from vocabulary in a population of learners - Kirby | :: | 81 |
| 2002 | - | The Emergence of Linguistic Structure: An overview of the Iterated Learning Model - Kirby,Hurford | :: | 58 |
| 1999 | - | The evolutionary language game - Nowak,Plotkin,Krakauer | :: | 51 |
| 2002 | - | Computational and evolutionary aspects of language - Nowak,Komarova,Niyogi | :: | 49 |
| 2000 | - | Grammatical Acquisition: Inductive Bias and Coevolution of Language and the Language Acquisition Device - Briscoe | :: | 36 |
| 2000 | - | Social transmission favours linguistic generalization - Hurford | :: | 34 |
| 2003 | - | Iterated Learning: a framework for the emergence of language - Smith,Kirby,Brighton | :: | 34 |
| 2001 | - | The evolutionary dynamics of grammar acquisition - Komarova,Niyogi,Nowak | :: | 33 |
| 2001 | - | Evolution of communication and language using signals, symbols, and words - Cangelosi | :: | 27 |
| 1999 | - | Possible stages in the evolution of the language capacity - Jackendoff | :: | 26 |
| 2001 | - | Towards an evolutionary theory of language - Nowak,Komarova | :: | 26 |
| 2005 | - | The Faculty of Language: What's Special about it? - Pinker,Jackendoff | :: | 25 |
| 2000 | - | The evolution of speech: a comparative review - Fitch | :: | 24 |
| 2003 | - | Progress in the simulation of emergent communication and language - Wagner,Reggia,Uriagereka,Wilkinson | :: | 22 |
| 2001 | - | The evolutionary dynamics of the lexical matrix - Komarova,Nowak | :: | 20 |
| 2003 | - | Least effort and the origins of scaling in human language - Ferrer-i-Cancho,Sole | :: | 19 |
| 1999 | - | An error limit for the evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer,Dress | :: | 19 |
| 2001 | - | Bootstrapping grounded symbols by minimal autonomous robots - Vogt | :: | 19 |
| 2005 | - | From monkey-like action recognition to human language: An evolutionary framework for neurolinguistics - Arbib | :: | 19 |
| 2003 | - | How the poverty of the stimulus solves the poverty of the stimulus - Zuidema | :: | 18 |
| 1999 | - | Syntax as an emergent characteristic of the evolution of semantic complexity - Schoenemann | :: | 18 |
| 1999 | - | Modeling the evolution of communication: From stimulus associations to grounded symbolic associations - Cangelosi | :: | 17 |
| 2000 | - | Evolutionary Perspectives on Diachronic Syntax - Briscoe | :: | 17 |
| 2004 | - | From UG to Universals: linguistic adaptation through iterated learning - Kirby,Smith,Brighton | :: | 16 |
| 2001 | - | The small world of human language - Ferrer-i-Cancho,Sole | :: | 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 |
| 1998 | - | Language as a Complex Adaptive System: Coevolution of Language and of the Language Acquisition Device - Briscoe | :: | 15 |
| 2007 | - | Innateness and culture in the evolution of language - Kirby,Dowman,Griffiths | :: | 14 |
| 2003 | - | Language Evolution: Consensus and Controversies - Christiansen,Kirby | :: | 14 |
| 2001 | - | How nouns and verbs differentially affect the behavior of artificial organisms - Cangelosi,Parisi | :: | 13 |
| 2005 | - | Cultural Selection for Learnability: Three principles underlying the view that language adapts to be learnable - Brighton,Kirby,Smith | :: | 13 |
| 2004 | - | Patterns in syntactic dependency networks - Ferrer-i-Cancho,Sole | :: | 12 |
| 2005 | - | The emergence and evolution of linguistic structure: from lexical to grammatical communication systems - Steels | :: | 12 |
| 2003 | - | Language dynamics in finite populations - Komarova,Nowak | :: | 12 |
| 2002 | - | Learning and the evolution of language: The role of cultural variation and learning costs in the Baldwin Effect - Munroe,Cangelosi | :: | 12 |
| 1999 | - | The Evolution of Language and Languages - Hurford | :: | 12 |
| 2000 | - | Evolutionary biology of language - Nowak | :: | 11 |
| 2002 | - | Factors influencing the origins of colour categories - Belpaeme | :: | 11 |
| 2000 | - | Nash equilibria for an evolutionary language game - Trapa,Nowak | :: | 11 |
| 2004 | - | Computational studies of language evolution - Wang,Ke,Minett | :: | 11 |
| 2000 | - | The basic reproductive ratio of a word, the maximum size of a lexicon - Nowak | :: | 10 |
| 2002 | - | Computer Simulation: A New Scientific Approach to the Study of Language Evolution - Cangelosi,Parisi | :: | 10 |
| 2003 | - | Grammatical Assimilation - Briscoe | :: | 10 |
| 2005 | - | Language as an evolutionary system - Brighton,Smith,Kirby | :: | 10 |
| 2003 | - | Simplicity as a Driving Force in Linguistic Evolution - Brighton | :: | 10 |
| 2000 | - | Error, Population Structure and the Origin of Diverse Sign Systems - Grassly,von Haeseler,Krakauer | :: | 9 |
| 2001 | - | Language as an evolving word web - Dorogovtsev,Mendes | :: | 9 |
| 2001 | - | Simulating the Formation of Color Categories - Belpaeme | :: | 9 |
| 2001 | - | The Difficulty of the Baldwinian Account of Linguistic Innateness - Yamauchi | :: | 9 |
| 2001 | - | Emergent syntax: the unremitting value of computational modeling for understanding the origins of complex language - Zuidema | :: | 8 |
| 2001 | - | On the Origins of Linguistic Structure: Computational models of the evolution of language - Tonkes | :: | 7 |
| 2005 | - | On the acquisition and evolution of compositional languages: Sparse input and the productive creativity of children - Vogt | :: | 7 |
| 2002 | - | The role of sequential learning in language evolution: Computational and experimental studies - Christiansen,Dale,Ellefson,Conway | :: | 7 |
| 2002 | - | Symbol Grounding and the Symbolic Theft Hypothesis - Cangelosi,Greco,Harnad | :: | 6 |
| 2004 | - | The processing of verbs and nouns in neural networks: Insights from Synthetic Brain Imaging - Cangelosi,Parisi | :: | 6 |
| 2002 | - | On the nature and evolution of the neural bases of human language - Lieberman | :: | 6 |
| 2005 | - | The consequences of Zipf's law for syntax and symbolic reference - Ferrer-i-Cancho,Riordan,Bollobas | :: | 6 |
| 2005 | - | The nature of the language faculty and its implications for evolution of language (Reply to Fitch, Hauser, and Chomsky) - Jackendoff,Pinker | :: | 5 |
| 2002 | - | An Introduction to Methods for Simulating the Evolution of Language - Turner | :: | 5 |
| 2001 | - | Learning visually grounded words and syntax of natural spoken language - Roy | :: | 5 |
| 2002 | - | Some Facts about Primate (including Human) Communication and Social Learning - Tomasello | :: | 5 |
| 2008 | - | Language as shaped by the brain - Christiansen,Chater | :: | 5 |
| 2005 | - | How Phonological Structures Can Be Culturally Selected for Learnability - Oudeyer | :: | 5 |
| 2006 | - | Language evolution and robotics: Issues in symbol grounding and language acquisition - Vogt | :: | 5 |
| 2004 | - | The sensorimotor bases of linguistic structure: Experiments with grounded adaptive agents - Cangelosi | :: | 5 |
| 2008 | - | Cultural evolution: implications for understanding the human language faculty and its evolution - Smith,Kirby | :: | 4 |
| 2004 | - | Self-organization and Language Evolution: System, Population and Individual - Ke | :: | 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 |
| 2000 | - | Survival of the Clearest - Pinker | :: | 4 |
| 2000 | - | Evolving learnable languages - Tonkes,Blair,Wiles | :: | 4 |
| 2002 | - | A Unified Simulation Scenario for Language Development, Evolution, and Historical Change - Parisi,Cangelosi | :: | 4 |
| 2000 | - | Evolution of syntax in groups of agents - Zuidema | :: | 4 |
| 2003 | - | Evolving Communication through the Inference of Meaning - Smith | :: | 3 |
| 2008 | - | Cumulative cultural evolution in the laboratory: An experimental approach to the origins of structure in human language - Kirby,Cornish,Smith | :: | 3 |
| 2004 | - | The Role of Learning and Development in Language Evolution: A Connectionist Perspective - Christiansen,Dale | :: | 3 |
| 2006 | - | Language and life history: A new perspective on the development and evolution of human language - Locke,Bogin | :: | 3 |
| 2003 | - | Language evolution: neural homologies and neuroinformatics - Arbib,Bota | :: | 3 |
| 2003 | - | Optimal communication in a noisy and heterogeneous environment - Zuidema | :: | 3 |
| 2003 | - | Language evolution and change - Christiansen,Dale | :: | 3 |
| 2004 | - | Baldwinian Accounts of Language Evolution - Yamauchi | :: | 3 |
| 2003 | - | Evolution of cultural communication systems: the coevolution of cultural signals and genes encoding learning preferences - Lachlan,Feldman | :: | 2 |
| 2001 | - | Selective imitation for a private sign system - Krakauer | :: | 2 |
| 2004 | - | Hominid cultural transmission and the evolution of language - Castro,Medina,Toro | :: | 2 |
| 2003 | - | Modeling Language Acquisition, Change and Variation - Zuidema | :: | 2 |
| 2006 | - | Cumulative cultural evolution: Can we ever learn more? - Vogt | :: | 2 |
| 2001 | - | Major Transitions in Language Evolution - Plotkin,Nowak | :: | 2 |
| 2005 | - | The Evolution of Language: A Comparative Review - Fitch | :: | 2 |
| 2005 | - | The Major Transitions in the Evolution of Language - Zuidema | :: | 2 |
| 2001 | - | Origins and Learnability of Syllable Systems: a Cultural Evolutionary Model - Oudeyer | :: | 2 |
| 2003 | - | Computer Models of the Evolution of Language and Languages - Livingstone | :: | 2 |
| 2006 | - | Understanding Linguistic Evolution by Visualizing the Emergence of Topographic Mappings - Brighton,Kirby | :: | 2 |
| 2000 | - | Evolutionary perspectives on language and brain plasticity - Deacon | :: | 1 |
| 2005 | - | Editorial: Language Acquisition and Evolution - Vogt | :: | 1 |
| 2005 | - | Coevolution of the language faculty and language(s) with decorrelated encodings - Briscoe | :: | 1 |
| 2006 | - | Evolution as a Constraint on Theories of Syntax: The Case against Minimalism - Parker | :: | 1 |
| 2005 | - | Computational exploration on language emergence and cultural dissemination - Gong,Minett,Wang | :: | 1 |
| 2001 | - | From Cultural Selection to Genetic Selection: A Framework for the Evolution of Language - Dor,Jablonka | :: | 1 |
| 2005 | - | Linguistic Evolution and Induction by Minimum Description Length - Brighton | :: | 1 |
| 2004 | - | Analogies between Genome and Language Evolution - Steels | :: | 1 |
| 2000 | - | The Origin of Symbols in the Brain - Balkenius,Gardenfors,Hall | :: | 1 |
| 2007 | - | Symbols are not uniquely human - Ribeiro,Loula,Araujo,Gudwin,Queiroz | :: | 1 |
| 2006 | - | Population dynamics of human language: a complex system - Komarova | :: | 1 |
| 2004 | - | Human uniqueness, learned symbols and recursive thought - Hurford | :: | 1 |
| 2001 | - | Towards formal models of embodiment and self-organization of language - Zuidema,Westermann | :: | 1 |
| 2007 | - | The evolution of language - Kirby | :: | 1 |
| 1999 | - | Evolution of communication using combination of grounded symbols in populations of neural networks - Cangelosi | :: | 1 |
| 2000 | - | Simulated Evolution of Communication: The Emergence of Meaning - Perfors | :: | 1 |
| 2006 | - | When language breaks into pieces: A conflict between communication through isolated signals and language - Ferrer-i-Cancho | :: | 1 |
| 2006 | - | Selective scenarios for the emergence of natural language - Szamado,Szathmary | :: | 1 |
| 2005 | - | Exploring the Adaptive Structure of the Mental Lexicon - Tamariz | :: | 1 |
| 2004 | - | Cooperation and the Evolution of Symbolic Communication - Gardenfors | :: | |
| 2002 | - | Modeling Syntactic Devices: An Exploration of Language Evolution from Connectionist and Memetic Perspectives - Lupyan | :: | |
| 2008 | - | The origin of language as a product of the evolution of modern cognition - Fauconnier,Turner | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Language Origin from an Emergentist Perspective - Ke,Holland | :: | |
| 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 | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Cooperation, Conceptual Spaces and the Evolution of Semantics - Gardenfors,Warglien | :: | |
| 2009 | - | Restrictions on biological adaptation in language evolution - Chater,Reali,Christiansen | :: | |
| 2008 | - | What do creoles and pidgins tell us about the evolution of languages? - Mufwene | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Language and Morality: Evolution, Altruism and Linguistic Moral Mechanisms - Poulshock | :: | |
| 2003 | - | Modelling the Emergence of Case - Moy,Manandhar | :: | |
| 2008 | - | Coevolution of human speech and trade - Horan,Bulte,Shogren | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Scaling laws in language evolution - Sole | :: | |
| 2005 | - | Conceptual complexity and the brain: understanding language origins - Schoenemann | :: | |
| 2007 | - | Variation, competition and selection in the self-organisation of compositionality - Vogt | :: | |
| 1997 | - | Biolinguistics - Structure, development and evolution of language - Jenkins | :: | |
| 2000 | - | In Humboldt's footsteps - Szathmary | :: | |
| 2007 | - | Linguistics: an invisible hand - Fitch | :: | |
| 2002 | - | Evolution and Learning of Language: Insights Drawn from Modeling - McLennan | :: | |
| 2008 | - | Embodiment versus memetics - Bryson | :: | |
| 2002 | - | Language evolution and change - Christiansen | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Cultural evolution of language - Smith | :: | |
| 2007 | - | The Role of Anticipation in the Emergence of Language - Swarup,Gasser | :: | |
| 2001 | - | Sciences of complexity and language origins: an alternative to natural selection - Longa | :: | |
| 2008 | - | A Biolinguistic Agenda - Hauser,Bever | :: | |
| 2003 | - | A Noisy Way to Evolve Signaling Behaviour - Jenkins | :: | |
| 2003 | - | The digital origin of human language - a synthesis - Noll | :: | |
| 2005 | - | Language evolution and human development - MacWhinney | :: | |
| xxxx | - | Emergence of self-organized symbol-based communication in artificial creatures - Loula,Gudwin,El-Hani,Queiroz | :: | |