| 1990 | - | Natural language and natural selection - Pinker,Bloom | :: | 168 |
| 1997 | - | The synthetic modeling of language origins - Steels | :: | 123 |
| 1998 | - | Computational simulations of the emergence of grammar - Batali | :: | 99 |
| 1999 | - | The evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer | :: | 93 |
| 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 |
| 1996 | - | The dilemma of Saussurean communication - Oliphant | :: | 60 |
| 1999 | - | The evolutionary language game - Nowak,Plotkin,Krakauer | :: | 51 |
| 2002 | - | Crucial Factors in the Origins of Word-Meaning - Steels,Kaplan,McIntyre,Van Looveren | :: | 51 |
| 2002 | - | Computational and evolutionary aspects of language - Nowak,Komarova,Niyogi | :: | 49 |
| 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 |
| 1998 | - | Fitness and the selective adaptation of language - Kirby | :: | 33 |
| 1991 | - | The Evolution of the Critical Period for Language Acquisition - Hurford | :: | 31 |
| 1998 | - | Stochasticity as a source of innovation in language games - Steels,Kaplan | :: | 30 |
| 2002 | - | Bootstrapping grounded word semantics - Steels,Kaplan | :: | 29 |
| 2001 | - | Towards an evolutionary theory of language - Nowak,Komarova | :: | 26 |
| 1997 | - | Formal Approaches to Innate and Learned Communication: Laying the Foundation for Language - Oliphant | :: | 25 |
| 2005 | - | The Faculty of Language: What's Special about it? - Pinker,Jackendoff | :: | 25 |
| 2005 | - | Coordinating Perceptually Grounded Categories through Language: A Case Study for Colour - Steels,Belpaeme | :: | 23 |
| 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 |
| 2005 | - | The emergence of compositional structures in perceptually grounded language games - Vogt | :: | 20 |
| 2001 | - | Bootstrapping grounded symbols by minimal autonomous robots - Vogt | :: | 19 |
| 2006 | - | The Computational Nature of Language Learning and Evolution - Niyogi | :: | 18 |
| 2004 | - | The evolution of vocabulary - Smith | :: | 17 |
| 2002 | - | Self-organization and selection in the emergence of vocabulary - Ke,Minett,Au,Wang | :: | 16 |
| 2006 | - | Non-equilibrium dynamics of language games on complex networks - Dall'Asta,Baronchelli,Barrat,Loreto | :: | 16 |
| 1998 | - | Language evolution without natural selection: From vocabulary to syntax in a population of learners - Kirby | :: | 15 |
| 2006 | - | Sharp Transition towards Shared Vocabularies in Multi-Agent Systems - Baronchelli,Felici,Caglioti,Loreto,Steels | :: | 15 |
| 2003 | - | The Transmission of Language: models of biological and cultural evolution - Smith | :: | 15 |
| 2005 | - | Cultural Selection for Learnability: Three principles underlying the view that language adapts to be learnable - Brighton,Kirby,Smith | :: | 13 |
| 2005 | - | The emergence and evolution of linguistic structure: from lexical to grammatical communication systems - Steels | :: | 12 |
| 2002 | - | Natural selection and cultural selection in the evolution of communication - Smith | :: | 12 |
| 2000 | - | Evolutionary biology of language - Nowak | :: | 11 |
| 2002 | - | Factors influencing the origins of colour categories - Belpaeme | :: | 11 |
| 2000 | - | Autonomous Formation of Concepts and Communication - de Jong | :: | 11 |
| 2000 | - | Nash equilibria for an evolutionary language game - Trapa,Nowak | :: | 11 |
| 2005 | - | Language as an evolutionary system - Brighton,Smith,Kirby | :: | 10 |
| 2005 | - | The evolutionary language game: An orthogonal approach - Lenaerts,Jansen,Tuyls,de Vylder | :: | 10 |
| 2004 | - | Optimizing the mutual intelligibility of linguistic agents in a shared world - Komarova,Niyogi | :: | 10 |
| 2003 | - | Simplicity as a Driving Force in Linguistic Evolution - Brighton | :: | 10 |
| 2005 | - | The Inferential Transmission of Language - Smith | :: | 9 |
| 1995 | - | Small Signaling Systems can Evolve in the Absence of Benefit to the Information Sender - Batali | :: | 9 |
| 2005 | - | The invasion of language: emergence, change and death - Wang,Minett | :: | 9 |
| 2005 | - | An Experimental Study of the Emergence of Human Communication Systems - Galantucci | :: | 9 |
| 2001 | - | The Importance of Rapid Cultural Convergence in the Evolution of Learned Symbolic Communication - Smith | :: | 9 |
| 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 |
| 2001 | - | Cost and conflict in animal signals and human language - Lachmann,Szamado,Bergstrom | :: | 8 |
| 1997 | - | The origins of syntax in visually grounded robotic agents - Steels | :: | 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 |
| 2003 | - | Evolution of an Optimal Lexicon under Constraints from Embodiment - Zuidema,Westermann | :: | 6 |
| 1996 | - | Function, Selection and Innateness: the Emergence of Language Universals - Kirby | :: | 6 |
| 2003 | - | Situated cognition and the role of multi-agent models in explaining language structure - Brighton,Kirby,Smith | :: | 6 |
| 2003 | - | A Distributed Learning Algorithm for Communication Development - de Jong,Steels | :: | 5 |
| 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 | - | Survival of the Clearest - Pinker | :: | 4 |
| 2004 | - | Establishing conventional communication systems: Is common knowledge necessary? - Barr | :: | 4 |
| 2000 | - | Evolution of syntax in groups of agents - Zuidema | :: | 4 |
| 2006 | - | Strategies for fast convergence in semiotic dynamics - Baronchelli,Dall'Asta,Barrat,Loreto | :: | 4 |
| 2003 | - | Why Synonymy is Rare: Fitness is in the Speaker - Hurford | :: | 3 |
| 2003 | - | Evolving Communication through the Inference of Meaning - Smith | :: | 3 |
| 2006 | - | Bootstrapping communication in language games: strategy, topology and all that - Baronchelli,Loreto,Dall'Asta,Barrat | :: | 3 |
| 2001 | - | Robotic Experiments on the Emergence of a Lexicon - Van Looveren | :: | 3 |
| 2003 | - | Optimal communication in a noisy and heterogeneous environment - Zuidema | :: | 3 |
| 2004 | - | Self-organization and categorical behavior in phonology - Wedel | :: | 3 |
| 2007 | - | Statistical physics of social dynamics - Castellano,Fortunato,Loreto | :: | 3 |
| 2005 | - | The Major Transitions in the Evolution of Language - Zuidema | :: | 2 |
| 2001 | - | Selective imitation for a private sign system - Krakauer | :: | 2 |
| 2001 | - | Major Transitions in Language Evolution - Plotkin,Nowak | :: | 2 |
| 2008 | - | Cultural route to the emergence of linguistic categories - Puglisi,Baronchelli,Loreto | :: | 2 |
| 2000 | - | Simulated Evolution of Communication: The Emergence of Meaning - Perfors | :: | 1 |
| 2005 | - | Stable communication through dynamic language - Smith | :: | 1 |
| 2004 | - | The Effects of Learning on the Evolution of Saussurean Communication - Vallejo,Taylor | :: | 1 |
| 2001 | - | The evolution of learning mechanisms supporting symbolic communication - Smith | :: | 1 |
| 2007 | - | Finite populations choose an optimal language. - Pawlowitsch | :: | 1 |
| 2005 | - | Design and Performance of Pre-Grammatical Language Games - Van Looveren | :: | 1 |
| 2008 | - | Modelling endangered languages: The effects of bilingualism and social structure - Minett,Wang | :: | 1 |
| 2001 | - | Towards formal models of embodiment and self-organization of language - Zuidema,Westermann | :: | 1 |
| 2007 | - | The Evolution of Conventions in Multi-Agent Systems - de Vylder | :: | 1 |
| 2005 | - | Exploring the Adaptive Structure of the Mental Lexicon - Tamariz | :: | 1 |
| 2005 | - | Perceptually Grounded Lexicon Formation Using Inconsistent Knowledge - Divina,Vogt | :: | |
| 2005 | - | Iterated Learning: The Exemplar-based Learning Approach - Eddy | :: | |
| 2007 | - | Evolving compositionality in evolutionary language games - Fontanari,Perlovsky | :: | |
| 2001 | - | The Peacock, the Sparrow, and the Evolution of Human Language - Bergstrom,Antia,Számadó,Lachmann | :: | |
| 2008 | - | Evolutionary stability conditions for signaling games with costly signals - Jager | :: | |
| 2008 | - | In-depth analysis of the naming game dynamics: The homogeneous mixing case - Baronchelli,Loreto | :: | |
| 2002 | - | Did language evolve like the vertebrate eye? - Botha | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Computational Approaches to Linguistic Consensus - Wang | :: | |
| 2007 | - | Computational Models of Real World Phonological Change - Choudhury | :: | |
| 2002 | - | From Perception to Language: Grounding Formal Syntax in an Almost Real World - De Beule,Van Looveren,Zuidema | :: | |
| 2001 | - | On the Relevance of Language Evolution Models for Cognitive Science - Zuidema,Westermann | :: | |
| 2008 | - | How Producer Biases Can Favor the Evolution of Communication: An Analysis of Evolutionary Dynamics - Mirolli,Parisi | :: | |
| 2002 | - | A Workbench for Simulating Natural Language Evolution - Vogel,Woods | :: | |
| 1999 | - | Social patterns restrict evolving patterns - Zuidema | :: | |