| 2006 | - | Understanding Linguistic Evolution by Visualizing the Emergence of Topographic Mappings - Brighton,Kirby | :: | 2 |
| 2005 | - | Linguistic Evolution and Induction by Minimum Description Length - Brighton | :: | 1 |
| 2005 | - | Cultural Selection for Learnability: Three principles underlying the view that language adapts to be learnable - Brighton,Kirby,Smith | :: | 13 |
| 2004 | - | Children's difficulty in learning homonyms - Doherty | :: | 1 |
| 2004 | - | Reaffirming the poverty of the stimulus argument: A reply to the replies - Lidz,Waxman | :: | 2 |
| 2004 | - | Is human cultural evolution Darwinian - Mesoudi,Whiten,Laland | :: | 4 |
| 2004 | - | A simplicity principle for language acquisition: Re-evaluating what can be learned from positive evidence; 2004 ; Manuscript under review - Chater,Chater | :: | 1 |
| 2004 | - | The evolution of vocabulary - Smith | :: | 17 |
| 2003 | - | Simplicity as a Driving Force in Linguistic Evolution - Brighton | :: | 10 |
| 2003 | - | Simplicity: A unifying principle in cognitive science - Chater,Chater | :: | 3 |
| 2003 | - | Compositionality from culture: the role of environment structure and learning bias - Smith | :: | 7 |
| 2003 | - | Language Evolution: Consensus and Controversies - Christiansen,Kirby | :: | 14 |
| 2003 | - | Language Evolution: The States of the Art - Christiansen,Kirby | :: | 33 |
| 2003 | - | Intelligent Meaning Creation in A Clumpy World Helps Communication - Smith | :: | 20 |
| 2003 | - | What infants know about syntax but couldn't have learned: Evidence for syntactic structure at 18-months - Lidz,Waxman,Freedman | :: | 2 |
| 2003 | - | Complex Systems in Language Evolution: the cultural emergence of compositional structure - Smith,Brighton,Kirby | :: | 20 |
| 2003 | - | Language Evolution in Populations: extending the Iterated Learning Model - Smith,Hurford | :: | 8 |
| 2003 | - | Iterated Learning: a framework for the emergence of language - Smith,Kirby,Brighton | :: | 34 |
| 2003 | - | Generalization from sparse input - Elman | :: | 2 |
| 2002 | - | On nature and language - In | :: | 1 |
| 2002 | - | Compositional Syntax from Cultural Transmission - Brighton | :: | 53 |
| 2002 | - | Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution - Jackendoff | :: | 59 |
| 2002 | - | Linguistic Evolution through Language Acquisition: Formal and Computational Models - Briscoe | :: | 47 |
| 2002 | - | Learning, Bottlenecks and the Evolution of Recursive Syntax - Kirby | :: | 86 |
| 2002 | - | Toward a method of selecting among computational models of cognition - Pitt,Myung,Zhang | :: | 2 |
| 2002 | - | The negotiation and acquisition of recursive grammars as a result of competition among exemplars - Batali | :: | 66 |
| 2002 | - | Empirical assessment of stimulus poverty arguments - Pullum,Scholz | :: | 13 |
| 2002 | - | The cultural evolution of communication in a population of neural networks - Smith | :: | 27 |
| 2002 | - | Uniformitarian Assumptions and Language Evolution Research - Newmeyer | :: | 5 |
| 2001 | - | The Survival of the Smallest: Stability Conditions for the Cultural Evolution of Compositional Language - Brighton,Kirby | :: | 22 |
| 2001 | - | Spontaneous evolution of linguistic structure: an iterated learning model of the emergence of regularity and irregularity - Kirby | :: | 96 |
| 2001 | - | Defending nativism in language acquisition - Wagner | :: | 1 |
| 2001 | - | Towards an evolutionary theory of language - Nowak,Komarova | :: | 26 |
| 2001 | - | The MIT encyclopaedia of the cognitive sciences - In | :: | 1 |
| 2000 | - | How children learn the meanings of words - Bloom | :: | 27 |
| 2000 | - | Experiments in iterated instance-based learning - Brighton | :: | 5 |
| 2000 | - | Effects of Compression on Language Evolution - Teal,Taylor | :: | 11 |
| 2000 | - | Syntax without Natural Selection: How compositionality emerges from vocabulary in a population of learners - Kirby | :: | 81 |
| 2000 | - | Model selection based on minimum description length - Gr | :: | 1 |
| 2000 | - | Darwinizing culture: The status of memetics as a science - Aunger | :: | 1 |
| 1999 | - | The cultural origins of human cognition - Tomasello | :: | 26 |
| 1999 | - | What's within - Cowie | :: | 5 |
| 1999 | - | The learning barrier: Moving from innate to learned systems of communication - Oliphant | :: | 42 |
| 1999 | - | The origins of life: From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language - Maynard~Smith,Szathmary | :: | 3 |
| 1999 | - | Syntactic nuts: Hard cases, syntactic theory, and language acquisition - Culicover | :: | 4 |
| 1999 | - | The search for simplicity: A fundamental cognitive principle - Chater | :: | 6 |
| 1999 | - | The development of language: Acquisition, change and evolution - Lightfoot | :: | 41 |
| 1999 | - | Function, Selection and Innateness: the Emergence of Language Universals - Kirby | :: | 76 |
| 1998 | - | Rhyme and reason: An introduction to minimalist syntax - Uriagereka | :: | 5 |
| 1997 | - | An introduction to Kolmogorov complexity and its applications - Li,Li | :: | 2 |
| 1997 | - | Constructing and sharing perceptual distinctions - Steels | :: | 31 |
| 1997 | - | Evolutionary Consequences of Language Learning - Niyogi,Berwick | :: | 29 |
| 1997 | - | Children's interpretations of homonyms: A developmental study - Mazzocco | :: | 2 |
| 1997 | - | The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain - Deacon | :: | 142 |
| 1997 | - | The Major Transitions in Evolution - Maynard-Smith,Szathmary | :: | 57 |
| 1997 | - | Stochastic complexity in learning - Rissanen | :: | 3 |
| 1996 | - | Contemporary linguistics: An introduction - O'Grady,Dobrovolsky,Katamba | :: | 1 |
| 1996 | - | Historical linguistics - Trask | :: | 18 |
| 1996 | - | Rethinking innateness: A connectionist perspective on development - Elman,Bates,Johnson,Karmiloff-Smith,Parisi,Plunkett | :: | 19 |
| 1996 | - | Proceeding of the 22nd annual meeting: General session and parasession on the role of learnability in grammatical theory - Learnability,Pullum,Pullum | :: | 1 |
| 1995 | - | Learning and morphological change - Hare,Elman | :: | 41 |
| 1994 | - | From compositional to systematic semantics - Zadrozny | :: | 2 |
| 1994 | - | Infinite Languages, Finite Minds: Connectionism, Learning and Linguistic Structure - Christiansen | :: | 25 |
| 1994 | - | Stability, instability, and chaos: An introduction to the theory of nonlinear differential equations - Glendinning | :: | 6 |
| 1993 | - | A Computational Model of Language Learnability and Language Change - Clark,Roberts | :: | 25 |
| 1992 | - | Constraints on word learning: Speculations about their nature, origins, and domain specificity - Markman | :: | 3 |
| 1991 | - | On the argument from the poverty of the stimulus - Wexler | :: | 5 |
| 1991 | - | Coevolution: Genes, culture and human diversity - Durham | :: | 16 |
| 1991 | - | Language acquisition in the absence of experience - Crain | :: | 12 |
| 1990 | - | How monkeys see the world: Inside the mind of another species - Cheney,Seyfarth | :: | 52 |
| 1990 | - | Typology and universals - Croft | :: | 24 |
| 1990 | - | Nativist and functional explanations in language acquisition - Hurford | :: | 26 |
| 1990 | - | Natural language and natural selection - Pinker,Bloom | :: | 168 |
| 1989 | - | Categorization and naming in children: Problems of induction - Markman | :: | 21 |
| 1989 | - | Language universals and linguistic typology - Comrie | :: | 13 |
| 1989 | - | The selfish gene - Dawkins | :: | 54 |
| 1989 | - | Biological evolution of the Saussurean sign as a component of the language acquisition device - Hurford | :: | 102 |
| 1988 | - | Children's use of mutual exclusivity to constrain the meaning of words - Markman,Wachtel | :: | 7 |
| 1985 | - | Crosslinguistic evidence for the language-making capacity - Slobin | :: | 5 |
| 1985 | - | Acts of identity - LePage,Tabouret-Keller | :: | 2 |
| 1985 | - | Culture and the evolutionary process - Boyd,Richerson | :: | 40 |
| 1982 | - | Language acquisition, data compression, and generalization - Wolff | :: | 9 |
| 1981 | - | Cultural Transmission and Evolution: A quantitative approach - Cavalli-Sforza,Feldman | :: | 45 |
| 1981 | - | The second year - Kagan | :: | 3 |
| 1980 | - | Laws of analogy - Ma | :: | 2 |
| 1979 | - | Introduction to automata theory, languages, and computation - Hopcroft,Ullman | :: | 15 |
| 1978 | - | Modeling by shortest data description - Rissanen | :: | 5 |
| 1978 | - | Introduction to generative-transformational syntax - Baker | :: | 2 |
| 1977 | - | Language change in childhood and history - Slobin | :: | 7 |
| 1974 | - | Decoding the language of the bee - von Frisch | :: | 9 |
| 1973 | - | Abductive and deductive change - Andersen | :: | 14 |
| 1973 | - | The formal theory of grammar - Kimball | :: | 2 |
| 1973 | - | Cognitive prerequisites for the development of grammar - Slobin | :: | 4 |
| 1972 | - | Sex, covert prestige, and linguistic change in the urban British English of Norwich - Trudgill | :: | 2 |
| 1967 | - | Recent contributions to the theory of innate ideas - Chomsky | :: | 4 |
| 1965 | - | Aspects of the theory of syntax - Chomsky | :: | 88 |
| 1958 | - | The perceptron: A probabilistic model for information storage and organization in the brain - Rosenblatt | :: | 1 |
| 1958 | - | The child's learning of English morphology - Berko | :: | 1 |