| 2001 | - | Spontaneous evolution of linguistic structure: an iterated learning model of the emergence of regularity and irregularity - Kirby | :: | 96 |
| 2002 | - | The Faculty of Language: What Is It, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve? - Hauser,Chomsky,Fitch | :: | 82 |
| 2002 | - | The Emergence of Linguistic Structure: An overview of the Iterated Learning Model - Kirby,Hurford | :: | 58 |
| 2002 | - | Compositional Syntax from Cultural Transmission - Brighton | :: | 53 |
| 2002 | - | Computational and evolutionary aspects of language - Nowak,Komarova,Niyogi | :: | 49 |
| 2003 | - | Evolving Grounded Communication for Robots - Steels | :: | 38 |
| 2001 | - | The evolutionary dynamics of grammar acquisition - Komarova,Niyogi,Nowak | :: | 33 |
| 2001 | - | Towards an evolutionary theory of language - Nowak,Komarova | :: | 26 |
| 2003 | - | Progress in the simulation of emergent communication and language - Wagner,Reggia,Uriagereka,Wilkinson | :: | 22 |
| 2001 | - | The Survival of the Smallest: Stability Conditions for the Cultural Evolution of Compositional Language - Brighton,Kirby | :: | 22 |
| 2001 | - | The evolutionary dynamics of the lexical matrix - Komarova,Nowak | :: | 20 |
| 2003 | - | Least effort and the origins of scaling in human language - Ferrer-i-Cancho,Sole | :: | 19 |
| 2005 | - | From monkey-like action recognition to human language: An evolutionary framework for neurolinguistics - Arbib | :: | 19 |
| 2001 | - | The small world of human language - Ferrer-i-Cancho,Sole | :: | 16 |
| 2003 | - | The Transmission of Language: models of biological and cultural evolution - Smith | :: | 15 |
| 2000 | - | Language evolution and information theory - Plotkin,Nowak | :: | 15 |
| 2004 | - | Patterns in syntactic dependency networks - Ferrer-i-Cancho,Sole | :: | 12 |
| 2005 | - | The emergence and evolution of linguistic structure: from lexical to grammatical communication systems - Steels | :: | 12 |
| 2002 | - | Learning and the evolution of language: The role of cultural variation and learning costs in the Baldwin Effect - Munroe,Cangelosi | :: | 12 |
| 2003 | - | Language dynamics in finite populations - Komarova,Nowak | :: | 12 |
| 2000 | - | Evolutionary biology of language - Nowak | :: | 11 |
| 2003 | - | The Neural Basis of Predicate-Argument Structure - Hurford | :: | 11 |
| 2001 | - | Two regimes in the frequency of words and the origins of complex lexicons: Zipf's law revisited - Ferrer-i-Cancho,Sole | :: | 11 |
| 2002 | - | Computer Simulation: A New Scientific Approach to the Study of Language Evolution - Cangelosi,Parisi | :: | 10 |
| 2003 | - | Grammatical Assimilation - Briscoe | :: | 10 |
| 2001 | - | Language as an evolving word web - Dorogovtsev,Mendes | :: | 9 |
| 2001 | - | The Importance of Rapid Cultural Convergence in the Evolution of Learned Symbolic Communication - Smith | :: | 9 |
| 2004 | - | Win-stay, lose-shift in language learning from peers - Matsen,Nowak | :: | 8 |
| 2001 | - | Emergent syntax: the unremitting value of computational modeling for understanding the origins of complex language - Zuidema | :: | 8 |
| 2003 | - | Bifurcation Analysis of the Fully Symmetric Language Dynamical Equation - Mitchener | :: | 8 |
| 2001 | - | Natural selection of the critical period for language acquisition - Komarova,Nowak | :: | 8 |
| 2001 | - | Cost and conflict in animal signals and human language - Lachmann,Szamado,Bergstrom | :: | 8 |
| 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 | - | Evolution of an Optimal Lexicon under Constraints from Embodiment - Zuidema,Westermann | :: | 6 |
| 2005 | - | A Bayesian view of language evolution by iterated learning - Griffiths,Kalish | :: | 6 |
| 2005 | - | The consequences of Zipf's law for syntax and symbolic reference - Ferrer-i-Cancho,Riordan,Bollobas | :: | 6 |
| 2002 | - | On the nature and evolution of the neural bases of human language - Lieberman | :: | 6 |
| 2003 | - | Competitive Exclusion and Coexistence of Universal Grammars - Mitchener,Nowak | :: | 5 |
| 2003 | - | The Evolution of Communication Systems by Adaptive Agents - Steels | :: | 5 |
| 2006 | - | Language evolution and robotics: Issues in symbol grounding and language acquisition - Vogt | :: | 5 |
| 2008 | - | Cultural evolution: implications for understanding the human language faculty and its evolution - Smith,Kirby | :: | 4 |
| 2002 | - | Zipf's law and random texts - Ferrer-i-Cancho,Sole | :: | 4 |
| 2000 | - | Survival of the Clearest - Pinker | :: | 4 |
| 2003 | - | Evolving Communication through the Inference of Meaning - Smith | :: | 3 |
| 2001 | - | Meaning Space Structure Determines the Stability of Culturally Evolved Compositional Language - Brighton,Kirby | :: | 3 |
| 2007 | - | The emergence of simple languages in an experimental coordination game - Selten,Warglien | :: | 3 |
| 2005 | - | The Major Transitions in the Evolution of Language - Zuidema | :: | 2 |
| 2002 | - | An Agent-Based Evolutionary Computing Approach to Memory-Based Syntactic Parsing of Natural Language - Pauw | :: | 2 |
| 2005 | - | Zipf's law from a communicative phase transition - Ferrer-i-Cancho | :: | 2 |
| 2002 | - | The constructive approach to the dynamical view of language - Hashimoto | :: | 2 |
| 2002 | - | Learning to communicate: The emergence of signaling in spatialized arrays of neural nets - Grim,Denis,Kokalis | :: | 2 |
| 2006 | - | Statistical Mechanical Approach to Human Language - Kosmidis,Kalampokis,Argyrakis | :: | 2 |
| 2003 | - | A Mathematical Model of Human Languages: The Interaction of Game Dynamics and Learning Processes - Mitchener | :: | 2 |
| 2005 | - | The variation of Zipf's law in human language - Ferrer-i-Cancho | :: | 2 |
| 2004 | - | Hominid cultural transmission and the evolution of language - Castro,Medina,Toro | :: | 2 |
| 2001 | - | Major Transitions in Language Evolution - Plotkin,Nowak | :: | 2 |
| 2002 | - | Evolution of language diversity: the survival of the fitness - Solan,Ruppin,Horn,Edelman | :: | 1 |
| 2005 | - | Coevolution of the language faculty and language(s) with decorrelated encodings - Briscoe | :: | 1 |
| 2006 | - | When language breaks into pieces: A conflict between communication through isolated signals and language - Ferrer-i-Cancho | :: | 1 |
| 2008 | - | Is a holistic protolanguage a plausible precursor to language? A test case for a modern evolutionary linguistics - Smith | :: | 1 |
| 2006 | - | Selective scenarios for the emergence of natural language - Szamado,Szathmary | :: | 1 |
| 2001 | - | The evolution of learning mechanisms supporting symbolic communication - Smith | :: | 1 |
| 2006 | - | Noisy Preferential Attachment and Language Evolution - Swarup,Gasser | :: | 1 |
| 2008 | - | What role does syntax play in a language network? - Liu,Hu | :: | |
| 2008 | - | Cost and complexity: Selection for speech and language - Locke | :: | |
| 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 | - | In-depth analysis of the naming game dynamics: The homogeneous mixing case - Baronchelli,Loreto | :: | |
| 2002 | - | From quasispecies to universal grammar - Nowak | :: | |
| 2003 | - | Universality in syntactic dependencies - Ferrer-i-Cancho,Sole,Kohler | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Computational Approaches to Linguistic Consensus - Wang | :: | |
| 2007 | - | Game Dynamics with Learning and Evolution of Universal Grammar - Mitchener | :: | |
| 2001 | - | Language's place in nature - Stumpf | :: | |
| 2004 | - | Characterizing the evolutionary dynamics of language - Kello | :: | |
| 2008 | - | Embodiment versus memetics - Bryson | :: | |
| 2001 | - | Sciences of complexity and language origins: an alternative to natural selection - Longa | :: | |
| 2007 | - | The Role of Anticipation in the Emergence of Language - Swarup,Gasser | :: | |
| 2008 | - | Simple, but not too Simple: Learnability vs. Functionality in Language Evolution - Swarup,Gasser | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Scaling laws in language evolution - Sole | :: | |
| 2003 | - | Common language or Tower of Babel? On the evolutionary dynamics of signals and their meanings - van Baalen,Jansen | :: | |