| 1990 | - | Natural language and natural selection - Pinker,Bloom | :: | 168 |
| 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 |
| 1998 | - | The emergence of a language in an evolving population of neural networks - Cangelosi,Parisi | :: | 64 |
| 1999 | - | The evolutionary language game - Nowak,Plotkin,Krakauer | :: | 51 |
| 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 |
| 2001 | - | Establishing Communication Systems without Explicit Meaning Transmission - Smith | :: | 28 |
| 1999 | - | Using Social Impact Theory to simulate language change - Nettle | :: | 27 |
| 1994 | - | Infinite Languages, Finite Minds: Connectionism, Learning and Linguistic Structure - Christiansen | :: | 25 |
| 2004 | - | The evolution of vocabulary - Smith | :: | 17 |
| 1998 | - | Language evolution without natural selection: From vocabulary to syntax in a population of learners - Kirby | :: | 15 |
| 2002 | - | Learning and the evolution of language: The role of cultural variation and learning costs in the Baldwin Effect - Munroe,Cangelosi | :: | 12 |
| 2000 | - | Evolutionary biology of language - Nowak | :: | 11 |
| 2002 | - | Computer Simulation: A New Scientific Approach to the Study of Language Evolution - Cangelosi,Parisi | :: | 10 |
| 2000 | - | The basic reproductive ratio of a word, the maximum size of a lexicon - Nowak | :: | 10 |
| 1997 | - | The evolution of incremental learning: language, development and critical periods - Kirby,Hurford | :: | 9 |
| 2001 | - | Natural selection of the critical period for language acquisition - Komarova,Nowak | :: | 8 |
| 2003 | - | The Language Mosaic and its Evolution - Hurford | :: | 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 |
| 1999 | - | Functional Innateness: explaining the critical period for language acquisition - Hurford | :: | 4 |
| 2003 | - | Evolving Communication through the Inference of Meaning - Smith | :: | 3 |
| 2001 | - | Major Transitions in Language Evolution - Plotkin,Nowak | :: | 2 |
| 2007 | - | Computational Models of Real World Phonological Change - Choudhury | :: | |
| 2002 | - | Did language evolve like the vertebrate eye? - Botha | :: | |
| 2005 | - | Cultural and Biological Evolution of Phonemic Speech - de Boer | :: | |
| 2002 | - | A Workbench for Simulating Natural Language Evolution - Vogel,Woods | :: | |