| 2001 | - | Spontaneous evolution of linguistic structure: an iterated learning model of the emergence of regularity and irregularity - Kirby | :: | 96 |
| 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 Emergence of Linguistic Structure: An overview of the Iterated Learning Model - Kirby,Hurford | :: | 58 |
| 1997 | - | Learning, culture and evolution in the origin of linguistic constraints - Kirby,Hurford | :: | 54 |
| 2002 | - | Compositional Syntax from Cultural Transmission - Brighton | :: | 53 |
| 2000 | - | Grammatical Acquisition: Inductive Bias and Coevolution of Language and the Language Acquisition Device - Briscoe | :: | 36 |
| 2003 | - | Iterated Learning: a framework for the emergence of language - Smith,Kirby,Brighton | :: | 34 |
| 1998 | - | Fitness and the selective adaptation of language - Kirby | :: | 33 |
| 2002 | - | Expression/induction models of language evolution: dimensions and issues - Hurford | :: | 31 |
| 1999 | - | Using Social Impact Theory to simulate language change - Nettle | :: | 27 |
| 1999 | - | Syntax out of Learning: the cultural evolution of structured communication in a population of induction algorithms - Kirby | :: | 23 |
| 2003 | - | Intelligent Meaning Creation in A Clumpy World Helps Communication - Smith | :: | 20 |
| 2003 | - | Complex Systems in Language Evolution: the cultural emergence of compositional structure - Smith,Brighton,Kirby | :: | 20 |
| 2006 | - | The Computational Nature of Language Learning and Evolution - Niyogi | :: | 18 |
| 2000 | - | Evolutionary Perspectives on Diachronic Syntax - Briscoe | :: | 17 |
| 2002 | - | Self-organization and selection in the emergence of vocabulary - Ke,Minett,Au,Wang | :: | 16 |
| 2000 | - | Language as a Complex Adaptive System - Steels | :: | 16 |
| 2004 | - | From UG to Universals: linguistic adaptation through iterated learning - Kirby,Smith,Brighton | :: | 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 |
| 2001 | - | Constrained Emergence of Universals and Variation in Syllable Systems - Redford,Chen,Miikkulainen | :: | 14 |
| 2003 | - | Language Evolution: Consensus and Controversies - Christiansen,Kirby | :: | 14 |
| 2007 | - | Innateness and culture in the evolution of language - Kirby,Dowman,Griffiths | :: | 14 |
| 2000 | - | The Emergence of Grammar in Communicating Autonomous Robotic Agents - Steels | :: | 13 |
| 2005 | - | Cultural Selection for Learnability: Three principles underlying the view that language adapts to be learnable - Brighton,Kirby,Smith | :: | 13 |
| 2002 | - | Learning and the evolution of language: The role of cultural variation and learning costs in the Baldwin Effect - Munroe,Cangelosi | :: | 12 |
| 2004 | - | Children Creating Core Properties of Language: Evidence from an Emerging Sign Language in Nicaragua - Senghas,Kita,Ozyurek | :: | 12 |
| 2002 | - | Factors influencing the origins of colour categories - Belpaeme | :: | 11 |
| 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 |
| 2001 | - | Emergent syntax: the unremitting value of computational modeling for understanding the origins of complex language - Zuidema | :: | 8 |
| 2002 | - | Methodological Issues in Simulating the Emergence of Language - Tonkes,Wiles | :: | 8 |
| 2007 | - | Frequency of word-use predicts rates of lexical evolution throughout Indo-European history - Pagel,Atkinson,Meade | :: | 7 |
| 2001 | - | On the Origins of Linguistic Structure: Computational models of the evolution of language - Tonkes | :: | 7 |
| 2007 | - | Language evolution by iterated learning with Bayesian agents - Griffiths,Kalish | :: | 6 |
| 2003 | - | Situated cognition and the role of multi-agent models in explaining language structure - Brighton,Kirby,Smith | :: | 6 |
| 2007 | - | Iterated learning: Intergenerational knowledge transmission reveals inductive biases - Kalish,Griffiths,Lewandowsky | :: | 5 |
| 2008 | - | Language as shaped by the brain - Christiansen,Chater | :: | 5 |
| 2003 | - | The Evolution of Communication Systems by Adaptive Agents - Steels | :: | 5 |
| 2003 | - | A Distributed Learning Algorithm for Communication Development - de Jong,Steels | :: | 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 |
| 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 |
| 2006 | - | Language and life history: A new perspective on the development and evolution of human language - Locke,Bogin | :: | 3 |
| 2006 | - | Computer modelling as a tool for understanding language evolution - de Boer | :: | 3 |
| 2001 | - | Robotic Experiments on the Emergence of a Lexicon - Van Looveren | :: | 3 |
| 1999 | - | An Emergence of Coordinated Communication in Populations of Agents - Kvasnicka,Pospichal | :: | 3 |
| 2004 | - | Self-organization and categorical behavior in phonology - Wedel | :: | 3 |
| 2008 | - | Language change and social networks - Ke,Gong,Wang | :: | 3 |
| 2003 | - | Conditions for Stable Vowel Systems in a Population - de Boer | :: | 2 |
| 2005 | - | The Major Transitions in the Evolution of Language - Zuidema | :: | 2 |
| 2003 | - | Computer Models of the Evolution of Language and Languages - Livingstone | :: | 2 |
| 2003 | - | Modeling Language Acquisition, Change and Variation - Zuidema | :: | 2 |
| 2006 | - | Understanding Linguistic Evolution by Visualizing the Emergence of Topographic Mappings - Brighton,Kirby | :: | 2 |
| 2005 | - | The Evolution of Language: A Comparative Review - Fitch | :: | 2 |
| 2007 | - | The evolution of language - Kirby | :: | 1 |
| 2006 | - | Evolution as a Constraint on Theories of Syntax: The Case against Minimalism - Parker | :: | 1 |
| 2005 | - | Design and Performance of Pre-Grammatical Language Games - Van Looveren | :: | 1 |
| 2006 | - | Innateness and culture in the evolution of language - Dowman,Kirby,Griffiths | :: | 1 |
| 2005 | - | Exploring the Adaptive Structure of the Mental Lexicon - Tamariz | :: | 1 |
| 2007 | - | Complex networks and human language - Ke | :: | 1 |
| 2004 | - | Cooperation and the Evolution of Symbolic Communication - Gardenfors | :: | |
| 2008 | - | Conventionalization of linguistic categories under simpler communicative constraints - Gong,Puglisi,Loreto,Wang | :: | |
| 2007 | - | Evolution, optimization and language change: the case of Bengali verb inflections - Choudhury,Jalan,Sarkar,Basu | :: | |
| 2008 | - | The Role of Cultural Transmission in Intention Sharing - Gong,Minett,Wang | :: | |
| 2007 | - | Computational Models of Real World Phonological Change - Choudhury | :: | |
| 2002 | - | The View From Elsewhere: Perspectives on ALife Modeling - Wheeler,Bullock,Paolo,Noble,Bedau,Husbands,Kirby,Seth | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Cooperation, Conceptual Spaces and the Evolution of Semantics - Gardenfors,Warglien | :: | |
| 2008 | - | Embodiment versus memetics - Bryson | :: | |
| 2004 | - | Colour Terms, Syntax and Bayes: Modelling Acquisition and Evolution - Dowman | :: | |