| 1997 | - | The synthetic modeling of language origins - Steels | :: | 123 |
| 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 |
| 1997 | - | Learning and the emergence of coordinated communication - Oliphant,Batali | :: | 61 |
| 2002 | - | The Emergence of Linguistic Structure: An overview of the Iterated Learning Model - Kirby,Hurford | :: | 58 |
| 2002 | - | Crucial Factors in the Origins of Word-Meaning - Steels,Kaplan,McIntyre,Van Looveren | :: | 51 |
| 1999 | - | The evolutionary language game - Nowak,Plotkin,Krakauer | :: | 51 |
| 1999 | - | The learning barrier: Moving from innate to learned systems of communication - Oliphant | :: | 42 |
| 2002 | - | Expression/induction models of language evolution: dimensions and issues - Hurford | :: | 31 |
| 1998 | - | Stochasticity as a source of innovation in language games - Steels,Kaplan | :: | 30 |
| 2002 | - | Bootstrapping grounded word semantics - Steels,Kaplan | :: | 29 |
| 1997 | - | Formal Approaches to Innate and Learned Communication: Laying the Foundation for Language - Oliphant | :: | 25 |
| 1999 | - | Collective learning and semiotic dynamics - Steels,Kaplan | :: | 25 |
| 2005 | - | Coordinating Perceptually Grounded Categories through Language: A Case Study for Colour - Steels,Belpaeme | :: | 23 |
| 1998 | - | Spontaneous Lexicon Change - Steels,Kaplan | :: | 22 |
| 2003 | - | Progress in the simulation of emergent communication and language - Wagner,Reggia,Uriagereka,Wilkinson | :: | 22 |
| 1999 | - | Situated grounded word semantics - Steels,Kaplan | :: | 22 |
| 2005 | - | The emergence of compositional structures in perceptually grounded language games - Vogt | :: | 20 |
| 1999 | - | Spatially Distributed Naming Games - Steels,McIntyre | :: | 17 |
| 2004 | - | The evolution of vocabulary - Smith | :: | 17 |
| 2002 | - | Grounding Symbols through Evolutionary Language Games - Steels | :: | 17 |
| 2003 | - | The Transmission of Language: models of biological and cultural evolution - Smith | :: | 15 |
| 1998 | - | Language evolution without natural selection: From vocabulary to syntax in a population of learners - Kirby | :: | 15 |
| 2002 | - | Natural selection and cultural selection in the evolution of communication - Smith | :: | 12 |
| 2002 | - | Factors influencing the origins of colour categories - Belpaeme | :: | 11 |
| 1999 | - | Cooperation, conflict and the evolution of communication - Noble | :: | 11 |
| 2002 | - | Computer Simulation: A New Scientific Approach to the Study of Language Evolution - Cangelosi,Parisi | :: | 10 |
| 2004 | - | Optimizing the mutual intelligibility of linguistic agents in a shared world - Komarova,Niyogi | :: | 10 |
| 1998 | - | Evolved Signals: Expensive Hype vs. Conspirational Whispers - Noble | :: | 10 |
| 2000 | - | Error, Population Structure and the Origin of Diverse Sign Systems - Grassly,von Haeseler,Krakauer | :: | 9 |
| 1998 | - | Babel: A testbed for research in origins of language - McIntyre | :: | 8 |
| 2001 | - | Cost and conflict in animal signals and human language - Lachmann,Szamado,Bergstrom | :: | 8 |
| 2000 | - | Modelling language-physiology coevolution - Livingstone,Fyfe | :: | 7 |
| 2006 | - | A cross-situational learning algorithm for damping homonymy in the guessing game - De Beule,de Vylder,Belpaeme | :: | 6 |
| 2000 | - | Grounding Language About Actions: Mobile Robots Playing Follow Me Games - Vogt | :: | 6 |
| 1997 | - | Developing a Community Language - Fyfe,Livingstone | :: | 5 |
| 2005 | - | How can we explain the emergence of a language that benefits the hearer but not the speaker? - Mirolli,Parisi | :: | 5 |
| 1998 | - | The evolution of a lexicon and meaning in robotic agents through self-organization - Vogt | :: | 4 |
| 2005 | - | Emergence of communication in embodied agents: co-adapting communicative and non-communicative behaviours - Nolfi | :: | 4 |
| 2000 | - | Co-operation, competition and the evolution of pre-linguistic communication - Noble | :: | 4 |
| 2003 | - | Optimal communication in a noisy and heterogeneous environment - Zuidema | :: | 3 |
| 2000 | - | Learners are losers: Natural selection and learning in the evolution of communication - Smith | :: | 3 |
| 2001 | - | Robotic Experiments on the Emergence of a Lexicon - Van Looveren | :: | 3 |
| 1999 | - | On the Evolutionary and Behavioral Dynamics of Social Coordination: Models and Theoretical Aspects - Di Paolo | :: | 2 |
| 2003 | - | Computer Models of the Evolution of Language and Languages - Livingstone | :: | 2 |
| 2001 | - | The Origin of the Speeches: language evolution through collaborative reinforcement learning - Walshe | :: | 1 |
| 2002 | - | Evolving consensus among a population of communicators - Wagner,Reggia | :: | 1 |
| 2000 | - | Some strategies for the simulation of vocabulary agreement in multi-agent communities - de Lara,Alfonseca | :: | 1 |
| 2000 | - | Simulated Evolution of Communication: The Emergence of Meaning - Perfors | :: | 1 |
| 2002 | - | The role of oblivion, memory size and spatial separation in dynamic language games - de Lara,Alfonseca | :: | 1 |
| 2004 | - | The Effects of Learning on the Evolution of Saussurean Communication - Vallejo,Taylor | :: | 1 |
| 2007 | - | Computational Models of Real World Phonological Change - Choudhury | :: | |
| 2008 | - | How Producer Biases Can Favor the Evolution of Communication: An Analysis of Evolutionary Dynamics - Mirolli,Parisi | :: | |
| 2007 | - | Variation, competition and selection in the self-organisation of compositionality - Vogt | :: | |
| 2005 | - | Emerging communication and cooperation in evolving agent societies - Buzing,Eiben,Schut | :: | |
| 2007 | - | Evolving compositionality in evolutionary language games - Fontanari,Perlovsky | :: | |
| 2001 | - | The Peacock, the Sparrow, and the Evolution of Human Language - Bergstrom,Antia,Számadó,Lachmann | :: | |
| 2005 | - | Why talk: an Adaptationist Approach - Scott-Phillips | :: | |
| 2003 | - | Common language or Tower of Babel? On the evolutionary dynamics of signals and their meanings - van Baalen,Jansen | :: | |