| 2002 | - | The Faculty of Language: What Is It, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve? - Hauser,Chomsky,Fitch | :: | 82 |
| 2002 | - | Computational and evolutionary aspects of language - Nowak,Komarova,Niyogi | :: | 49 |
| 2003 | - | Iterated Learning: a framework for the emergence of language - Smith,Kirby,Brighton | :: | 34 |
| 2001 | - | Towards an evolutionary theory of language - Nowak,Komarova | :: | 26 |
| 2005 | - | The Faculty of Language: What's Special about it? - Pinker,Jackendoff | :: | 25 |
| 2005 | - | From monkey-like action recognition to human language: An evolutionary framework for neurolinguistics - Arbib | :: | 19 |
| 2004 | - | From UG to Universals: linguistic adaptation through iterated learning - Kirby,Smith,Brighton | :: | 16 |
| 2003 | - | The Transmission of Language: models of biological and cultural evolution - Smith | :: | 15 |
| 2003 | - | Language Evolution: Consensus and Controversies - Christiansen,Kirby | :: | 14 |
| 2005 | - | Cultural Selection for Learnability: Three principles underlying the view that language adapts to be learnable - Brighton,Kirby,Smith | :: | 13 |
| 2004 | - | Children Creating Core Properties of Language: Evidence from an Emerging Sign Language in Nicaragua - Senghas,Kita,Ozyurek | :: | 12 |
| 2005 | - | The evolution of the language faculty: Clarifications and implications - Fitch,Hauser,Chomsky | :: | 12 |
| 2003 | - | Simplicity as a Driving Force in Linguistic Evolution - Brighton | :: | 10 |
| 2005 | - | Language as an evolutionary system - Brighton,Smith,Kirby | :: | 10 |
| 2005 | - | The Inferential Transmission of Language - Smith | :: | 9 |
| 2005 | - | The invasion of language: emergence, change and death - Wang,Minett | :: | 9 |
| 2003 | - | Constructions: a new theoretical approach to language - Goldberg | :: | 9 |
| 2003 | - | Situated cognition and the role of multi-agent models in explaining language structure - Brighton,Kirby,Smith | :: | 6 |
| 2005 | - | The nature of the language faculty and its implications for evolution of language (Reply to Fitch, Hauser, and Chomsky) - Jackendoff,Pinker | :: | 5 |
| 2004 | - | Chaos and Language - Mitchener,Nowak | :: | 5 |
| 2008 | - | Language as shaped by the brain - Christiansen,Chater | :: | 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 |
| 2003 | - | Optimal communication in a noisy and heterogeneous environment - Zuidema | :: | 3 |
| 2003 | - | Evolving Communication through the Inference of Meaning - Smith | :: | 3 |
| 2007 | - | The emergence of simple languages in an experimental coordination game - Selten,Warglien | :: | 3 |
| 2006 | - | Language and life history: A new perspective on the development and evolution of human language - Locke,Bogin | :: | 3 |
| 2004 | - | Baldwinian Accounts of Language Evolution - Yamauchi | :: | 3 |
| 2005 | - | The Major Transitions in the Evolution of Language - Zuidema | :: | 2 |
| 2006 | - | The protolanguage debate: bridging the gap? - Smith | :: | 2 |
| 2003 | - | A Mathematical Model of Human Languages: The Interaction of Game Dynamics and Learning Processes - Mitchener | :: | 2 |
| 2003 | - | Modeling Language Acquisition, Change and Variation - Zuidema | :: | 2 |
| 2006 | - | Understanding Linguistic Evolution by Visualizing the Emergence of Topographic Mappings - Brighton,Kirby | :: | 2 |
| 2006 | - | Evolving the narrow language faculty: was recursion the pivotal step? - Parker | :: | 2 |
| 2005 | - | The Evolution of Language: A Comparative Review - Fitch | :: | 2 |
| 2005 | - | Linguistic Evolution and Induction by Minimum Description Length - Brighton | :: | 1 |
| 2005 | - | Design and Performance of Pre-Grammatical Language Games - Van Looveren | :: | 1 |
| 2005 | - | Emergence of grammatical constructions: evidence from simulation and grounded agent experiments - Dominey | :: | 1 |
| 2006 | - | Evolution as a Constraint on Theories of Syntax: The Case against Minimalism - Parker | :: | 1 |
| 2008 | - | Protolanguage reconstructed - Smith | :: | 1 |
| 2008 | - | Is a holistic protolanguage a plausible precursor to language? A test case for a modern evolutionary linguistics - Smith | :: | 1 |
| 2003 | - | Phonemic Coding: Optimal Communication under Noise? - de Boer,Zuidema | :: | 1 |
| 2005 | - | From Sensorimotor Sequence to Grammatical Construction: Evidence from Simulation and Neurophysiology - Dominey | :: | |
| 2008 | - | Primate social knowledge and the origins of language - Seyfarth,Cheney | :: | |
| 2006 | - | The simpler syntax hypothesis. - Culicover,Jackendoff | :: | |
| 2008 | - | What do creoles and pidgins tell us about the evolution of languages? - Mufwene | :: | |
| 2003 | - | Rich Syntax from a Raw Corpus: Unsupervised Does It - Edelman,Solan,Horn,Ruppin | :: | |
| 2008 | - | Analogy and Multi-Level Selection in the Formation of a Case Grammar. A Case Study in Fluid Construction Grammar - van Trijp | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Language and Morality: Evolution, Altruism and Linguistic Moral Mechanisms - Poulshock | :: | |
| 2004 | - | Grounding Language in the World: Schema Theory Meets Semiotics - Roy | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Minimalist foundations of language evolution: on the question of why language is the way it is - Hinzen | :: | |
| 2008 | - | A Biolinguistic Agenda - Hauser,Bever | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Recent Developments in the Evolution of Language - Hurford | :: | |
| 2002 | - | From quasispecies to universal grammar - Nowak | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Utility for Communicability by Profit and Cost of Agreement - Matoba,Nakamura,Tojo | :: | |
| 2005 | - | Modelling language development and evolution with the benefit of hindsight - Velde | :: | |
| 2003 | - | Modelling of Sound Systems - de Boer | :: | |
| 2005 | - | Cultural and Biological Evolution of Phonemic Speech - de Boer | :: | |
| 2005 | - | Using mathematical models of language experimentally - O'Donnell,Hauser,Fitch | :: | |