| 1997 | - | The synthetic modeling of language origins - Steels | :: | 123 |
| 1999 | - | The evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer | :: | 93 |
| 2001 | - | Evolution of universal grammar - Nowak,Komarova,Niyogi | :: | 90 |
| 2000 | - | The evolution of syntactic communication - Nowak,Plotkin,Jansen | :: | 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 |
| 1996 | - | Emergent Adaptive Lexicons - Steels | :: | 56 |
| 1999 | - | The evolutionary language game - Nowak,Plotkin,Krakauer | :: | 51 |
| 2002 | - | Computational and evolutionary aspects of language - Nowak,Komarova,Niyogi | :: | 49 |
| 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 |
| 2001 | - | The evolutionary dynamics of grammar acquisition - Komarova,Niyogi,Nowak | :: | 33 |
| 2001 | - | Towards an evolutionary theory of language - Nowak,Komarova | :: | 26 |
| 1997 | - | Formal Approaches to Innate and Learned Communication: Laying the Foundation for Language - Oliphant | :: | 25 |
| 2005 | - | The Faculty of Language: What's Special about it? - Pinker,Jackendoff | :: | 25 |
| 1994 | - | Infinite Languages, Finite Minds: Connectionism, Learning and Linguistic Structure - Christiansen | :: | 25 |
| 2005 | - | Coordinating Perceptually Grounded Categories through Language: A Case Study for Colour - Steels,Belpaeme | :: | 23 |
| 2003 | - | Progress in the simulation of emergent communication and language - Wagner,Reggia,Uriagereka,Wilkinson | :: | 22 |
| 2001 | - | The evolutionary dynamics of the lexical matrix - Komarova,Nowak | :: | 20 |
| 2003 | - | Complex Systems in Language Evolution: the cultural emergence of compositional structure - Smith,Brighton,Kirby | :: | 20 |
| 1999 | - | An error limit for the evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer,Dress | :: | 19 |
| 1997 | - | Recursive inconsistencies are hard to learn: A connectionist perspective on universal word order correlations - Christiansen,Devlin | :: | 18 |
| 1999 | - | Syntax as an emergent characteristic of the evolution of semantic complexity - Schoenemann | :: | 18 |
| 2006 | - | The Computational Nature of Language Learning and Evolution - Niyogi | :: | 18 |
| 1999 | - | Self-Organisation in Vowel Systems - de Boer | :: | 17 |
| 1998 | - | Altruism, status, and the origin of relevance - Dessalles | :: | 17 |
| 1999 | - | The Spontaneous Self-organization of an Adaptive Language - Steels | :: | 17 |
| 1999 | - | Spatially Distributed Naming Games - Steels,McIntyre | :: | 17 |
| 2002 | - | Self-organization and selection in the emergence of vocabulary - Ke,Minett,Au,Wang | :: | 16 |
| 2000 | - | Language evolution and information theory - Plotkin,Nowak | :: | 15 |
| 2001 | - | Constrained Emergence of Universals and Variation in Syllable Systems - Redford,Chen,Miikkulainen | :: | 14 |
| 1997 | - | Too many love songs: Sexual selection and the evolution of communication - Werner,Todd | :: | 13 |
| 1999 | - | Experiments in learning by imitation - grounding and use of communication in robotic agents - Billard,Dautenhahn | :: | 13 |
| 2005 | - | Cultural Selection for Learnability: Three principles underlying the view that language adapts to be learnable - Brighton,Kirby,Smith | :: | 13 |
| 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 |
| 2000 | - | Evolutionary biology of language - Nowak | :: | 11 |
| 2002 | - | Factors influencing the origins of colour categories - Belpaeme | :: | 11 |
| 2000 | - | Nash equilibria for an evolutionary language game - Trapa,Nowak | :: | 11 |
| 2000 | - | Effects of Compression on Language Evolution - Teal,Taylor | :: | 11 |
| 1998 | - | Evolution of Linguistic Diversity in a Simple Communication System - Arita,Koyama | :: | 11 |
| 2000 | - | The basic reproductive ratio of a word, the maximum size of a lexicon - Nowak | :: | 10 |
| 1999 | - | The Acquisition of Grammar in an Evolving Population of Language Agents - Briscoe | :: | 10 |
| 2005 | - | The Inferential Transmission of Language - 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 |
| 1997 | - | Language Learning and Language Contact - Steels | :: | 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 |
| 1997 | - | The origins of syntax in visually grounded robotic agents - Steels | :: | 7 |
| 2001 | - | On the Origins of Linguistic Structure: Computational models of the evolution of language - Tonkes | :: | 7 |
| 2002 | - | The role of sequential learning in language evolution: Computational and experimental studies - Christiansen,Dale,Ellefson,Conway | :: | 7 |
| 2000 | - | Modelling language-physiology coevolution - Livingstone,Fyfe | :: | 7 |
| 2003 | - | Situated cognition and the role of multi-agent models in explaining language structure - Brighton,Kirby,Smith | :: | 6 |
| 2002 | - | On the nature and evolution of the neural bases of human language - Lieberman | :: | 6 |
| 2005 | - | The nature of the language faculty and its implications for evolution of language (Reply to Fitch, Hauser, and Chomsky) - Jackendoff,Pinker | :: | 5 |
| 1999 | - | The emergence of language: A conspiracy theory - Elman | :: | 5 |
| 2005 | - | The role of population structure in language evolution - Lee,Collier,Taylor,Stabler | :: | 5 |
| 2008 | - | Language as shaped by the brain - Christiansen,Chater | :: | 5 |
| 2003 | - | Competitive Exclusion and Coexistence of Universal Grammars - Mitchener,Nowak | :: | 5 |
| 2003 | - | The Evolution of Communication Systems by Adaptive Agents - Steels | :: | 5 |
| 2004 | - | Chaos and Language - Mitchener,Nowak | :: | 5 |
| 1998 | - | Spontaneous sign systems created by deaf children in two cultures - Goldin-Meadow,Mylander | :: | 5 |
| 2006 | - | Analysis and Synthesis of the Distribution of Consonants over Languages: A Complex Network Approach - Choudhury,Mukherjee,Basu,Ganguly | :: | 5 |
| 2004 | - | The sensorimotor bases of linguistic structure: Experiments with grounded adaptive agents - Cangelosi | :: | 5 |
| 2004 | - | Self-organization and Language Evolution: System, Population and Individual - Ke | :: | 4 |
| 2002 | - | Simulated Evolution of Language: a Review of the Field - Perfors | :: | 4 |
| 2000 | - | Survival of the Clearest - Pinker | :: | 4 |
| 2000 | - | Evolution of syntax in groups of agents - Zuidema | :: | 4 |
| 2003 | - | Evolving Communication through the Inference of Meaning - Smith | :: | 3 |
| 1998 | - | Explaining global patterns of language diversity - Nettle | :: | 3 |
| 2005 | - | The Major Transitions in the Evolution of Language - Zuidema | :: | 2 |
| 2003 | - | The Language Dynamics Equations of Population-Based Transition -- a Scenario for Creolization - Nakamura,Hashimoto,Tojo | :: | 2 |
| 2008 | - | The fitness and functionality of culturally evolved communication systems - Fay,Garrod,Roberts | :: | 2 |
| 2003 | - | Evolution of cultural communication systems: the coevolution of cultural signals and genes encoding learning preferences - Lachlan,Feldman | :: | 2 |
| 2000 | - | Language discrimination by human newborns and cotton-top tamarin monkeys - Ramus,Hauser,Miller,Morris,Mehler | :: | 2 |
| 2003 | - | Computer Models of the Evolution of Language and Languages - Livingstone | :: | 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 |
| 2004 | - | Hominid cultural transmission and the evolution of language - Castro,Medina,Toro | :: | 2 |
| 2001 | - | Major Transitions in Language Evolution - Plotkin,Nowak | :: | 2 |
| 1998 | - | Evolution of linguistic diversity in a simple communication system - Arita,Koyama | :: | 2 |
| 2005 | - | The Evolution of Language: A Comparative Review - Fitch | :: | 2 |
| 2006 | - | Natural-language 'cheap talk' enables coordination on a social-dilemma game in a culturally homogeneous population - Jeffreys | :: | 1 |
| 2003 | - | Social Language Learning - Steels | :: | 1 |
| 2003 | - | Artificial Agents and Natural Determiners - Van Looveren | :: | 1 |
| 2000 | - | Simulated Evolution of Communication: The Emergence of Meaning - Perfors | :: | 1 |
| 2006 | - | Evolution as a Constraint on Theories of Syntax: The Case against Minimalism - Parker | :: | 1 |
| 2006 | - | Selective scenarios for the emergence of natural language - Szamado,Szathmary | :: | 1 |
| 2006 | - | A saltationist approach for the evolution of human cognition and language - Lanyon | :: | 1 |
| 2004 | - | The Effects of Learning on the Evolution of Saussurean Communication - Vallejo,Taylor | :: | 1 |
| 2003 | - | Unsupervised Context Sensitive Language Acquisition from a Large Corpus - Solan,Horn,Ruppin,Edelman | :: | 1 |
| 2005 | - | Multiple-cue integration in language acquisition: A connectionist model of speech segmentation and rule-like behavior - Christiansen,Conway,Curtin | :: | 1 |
| 2002 | - | Modeling Syntactic Devices: An Exploration of Language Evolution from Connectionist and Memetic Perspectives - Lupyan | :: | |
| 2005 | - | Conceptual complexity and the brain: understanding language origins - Schoenemann | :: | |
| 2005 | - | Introducing a Scene Building Game to Model Early First Language Acquisition - Jack | :: | |
| 2006 | - | The eloquent ape: genes, brains and the evolution of language - Fisher,Marcus | :: | |
| 1997 | - | Biolinguistics - Structure, development and evolution of language - Jenkins | :: | |
| 2008 | - | How can ``cheap talk'' yield coordination, given a conflict? - Jeffreys | :: | |
| 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 | - | The logic of indirect speech - Pinker,Nowak,Lee | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Generalised signalling: a possible solution to the paradox of language - Dessalles | :: | |
| 2005 | - | Grammar Structure and the Dynamics of Language Evolution - Lee,Collier,Kobele,Stabler,Taylor | :: | |
| 2002 | - | Did language evolve like the vertebrate eye? - Botha | :: | |
| 2002 | - | From quasispecies to universal grammar - Nowak | :: | |
| 2003 | - | Universality in syntactic dependencies - Ferrer-i-Cancho,Sole,Kohler | :: | |
| 2005 | - | Modelling language development and evolution with the benefit of hindsight - Velde | :: | |
| 2000 | - | In Humboldt's footsteps - Szathmary | :: | |
| 2007 | - | Game Dynamics with Learning and Evolution of Universal Grammar - Mitchener | :: | |
| 2004 | - | Early lexical development in a self-organizing neural network - Li,Farkas,MacWhinney | :: | |
| 2007 | - | Computational Models of Real World Phonological Change - Choudhury | :: | |
| 2009 | - | Restrictions on biological adaptation in language evolution - Chater,Reali,Christiansen | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Language and Morality: Evolution, Altruism and Linguistic Moral Mechanisms - Poulshock | :: | |
| 2003 | - | Modelling the Emergence of Case - Moy,Manandhar | :: | |
| 2001 | - | Sciences of complexity and language origins: an alternative to natural selection - Longa | :: | |
| 2003 | - | The digital origin of human language - a synthesis - Noll | :: | |
| 2004 | - | Colour Terms, Syntax and Bayes: Modelling Acquisition and Evolution - Dowman | :: | |
| 2003 | - | Common language or Tower of Babel? On the evolutionary dynamics of signals and their meanings - van Baalen,Jansen | :: | |