| 1999 | - | The evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer | :: | 93 |
| 2001 | - | Evolution of universal grammar - Nowak,Komarova,Niyogi | :: | 90 |
| 2002 | - | Learning, Bottlenecks and the Evolution of Recursive Syntax - Kirby | :: | 86 |
| 2002 | - | The Faculty of Language: What Is It, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve? - Hauser,Chomsky,Fitch | :: | 82 |
| 2000 | - | Syntax without Natural Selection: How compositionality emerges from vocabulary in a population of learners - Kirby | :: | 81 |
| 2000 | - | The evolution of syntactic communication - Nowak,Plotkin,Jansen | :: | 81 |
| 1999 | - | The evolutionary language game - Nowak,Plotkin,Krakauer | :: | 51 |
| 2002 | - | Computational and evolutionary aspects of language - Nowak,Komarova,Niyogi | :: | 49 |
| 2001 | - | Towards an evolutionary theory of language - Nowak,Komarova | :: | 26 |
| 2000 | - | Language as a Complex Adaptive System - Steels | :: | 16 |
| 2003 | - | The Transmission of Language: models of biological and cultural evolution - Smith | :: | 15 |
| 2000 | - | Language evolution and information theory - Plotkin,Nowak | :: | 15 |
| 2002 | - | Phonemic coding might be a result of sensory-motor coupling dynamics - Oudeyer | :: | 13 |
| 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 |
| 2000 | - | Nash equilibria for an evolutionary language game - Trapa,Nowak | :: | 11 |
| 2004 | - | Computational studies of language evolution - Wang,Ke,Minett | :: | 11 |
| 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 |
| 2001 | - | Language as an evolving word web - Dorogovtsev,Mendes | :: | 9 |
| 2005 | - | The invasion of language: emergence, change and death - Wang,Minett | :: | 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 |
| 2001 | - | The Origins of Syllable Systems: An Operational Model - Oudeyer | :: | 7 |
| 2003 | - | The Language Mosaic and its Evolution - Hurford | :: | 7 |
| 2007 | - | Language evolution by iterated learning with Bayesian agents - Griffiths,Kalish | :: | 6 |
| 2002 | - | The Computational Study of Diachronic Linguistics - Niyogi | :: | 6 |
| 2003 | - | The Evolution of Communication Systems by Adaptive Agents - Steels | :: | 5 |
| 2004 | - | Chaos and Language - Mitchener,Nowak | :: | 5 |
| 2003 | - | Competitive Exclusion and Coexistence of Universal Grammars - Mitchener,Nowak | :: | 5 |
| 2003 | - | Launching language: The gestural origin of discrete infinity - Studdert-Kennedy,Goldstein | :: | 5 |
| 2004 | - | Self-organization and Language Evolution: System, Population and Individual - Ke | :: | 4 |
| 2000 | - | Survival of the Clearest - Pinker | :: | 4 |
| 2006 | - | Language and life history: A new perspective on the development and evolution of human language - Locke,Bogin | :: | 3 |
| 1999 | - | An Emergence of Coordinated Communication in Populations of Agents - Kvasnicka,Pospichal | :: | 3 |
| 2006 | - | Computer modelling as a tool for understanding language evolution - de Boer | :: | 3 |
| 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 |
| 2002 | - | Population dynamics of grammar acquisition - Komarova,Nowak | :: | 2 |
| 2003 | - | A Mathematical Model of Human Languages: The Interaction of Game Dynamics and Learning Processes - Mitchener | :: | 2 |
| 2004 | - | A Computational Model of Emergent Syntax: Supporting the Natural Transition from the One-word Stage to the Two-Word Stage - Jack,Reed,Waller | :: | 2 |
| 2001 | - | Major Transitions in Language Evolution - Plotkin,Nowak | :: | 2 |
| 2008 | - | Cultural route to the emergence of linguistic categories - Puglisi,Baronchelli,Loreto | :: | 2 |
| 2005 | - | Editorial: Language Acquisition and Evolution - Vogt | :: | 1 |
| 2007 | - | The evolution of language - Kirby | :: | 1 |
| 2006 | - | Population dynamics of human language: a complex system - Komarova | :: | 1 |
| 2002 | - | A Unified Model for the Origins of Phonemically Coded Syllable Systems - Oudeyer | :: | 1 |
| 2002 | - | A Workbench for Simulating Natural Language Evolution - Vogel,Woods | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Language and Morality: Evolution, Altruism and Linguistic Moral Mechanisms - Poulshock | :: | |
| 2002 | - | From quasispecies to universal grammar - Nowak | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Language Origin from an Emergentist Perspective - Ke,Holland | :: | |
| 2007 | - | Game Dynamics with Learning and Evolution of Universal Grammar - Mitchener | :: | |
| 2001 | - | Language's place in nature - Stumpf | :: | |