| 1990 | - | Natural language and natural selection - Pinker,Bloom | :: | 168 |
| 1994 | - | The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language - Pinker | :: | 120 |
| 1990 | - | Language and Species - Bickerton | :: | 87 |
| 1998 | - | Synthesising the Origins of Language and Meaning Using Co-evolution, Self-organisation and Level formation - Steels | :: | 49 |
| 1957 | - | Syntactic Structures - Chomsky | :: | 40 |
| 2000 | - | Grammatical Acquisition: Inductive Bias and Coevolution of Language and the Language Acquisition Device - Briscoe | :: | 36 |
| 1998 | - | Fitness and the selective adaptation of language - Kirby | :: | 33 |
| 1991 | - | How to Set Parameters: Arguments from Language Change - Lightfoot | :: | 33 |
| 1984 | - | The Language Bioprogram Hypothesis - Bickerton | :: | 30 |
| 1989 | - | Reflexes of grammar in patterns of language change - Kroch | :: | 29 |
| 1987 | - | Language and Number: the emergence of a cognitive system - Hurford | :: | 26 |
| 1993 | - | A Computational Model of Language Learnability and Language Change - Clark,Roberts | :: | 25 |
| 1996 | - | A Language Learning Model for Finite Parameter Spaces - Niyogi,Berwick | :: | 24 |
| 1998 | - | Catastrophic evolution: The case for a single step from protolanguage to full human language - Bickerton | :: | 23 |
| 1993 | - | Coevolution of neocortical size, group size and language in humans - Dunbar | :: | 22 |
| 2002 | - | Grammatical Acquisition and Linguistic Selection - Briscoe | :: | 22 |
| 1994 | - | A Performance Theory of Order and Constituency - Hawkins | :: | 21 |
| 1998 | - | The evolution of language from social intelligence - Worden | :: | 17 |
| 1998 | - | Language as a Complex Adaptive System: Coevolution of Language and of the Language Acquisition Device - Briscoe | :: | 15 |
| 1966 | - | Some universals of grammar with particular reference to the order of meaningful elements - Greenberg | :: | 15 |
| 1981 | - | Government and Binding - Chomsky | :: | 13 |
| 2000 | - | The Seeds of Speech: Language Origin and Evolution - Aitchison | :: | 12 |
| 1942 | - | Canalization of development and the inheritance of acquired characters - Waddington | :: | 11 |
| 1992 | - | The selection of syntactic knowledge - Clark | :: | 11 |
| 1997 | - | Co-evolution of Language and of the Language Acquisition Device - Briscoe | :: | 9 |
| 1997 | - | Verb movement in Old and Middle English: dialect variation and language contact - Kroch,Taylor | :: | 9 |
| 1997 | - | The evolution of incremental learning: language, development and critical periods - Kirby,Hurford | :: | 9 |
| 1986 | - | Language acquisition and the theory of parameters - Hyams | :: | 8 |
| 1991 | - | The convergence of mildly context-sensitive grammar formalisms - Joshi,Vijay-Shanker,Weir | :: | 7 |
| 1996 | - | The formal properties of synchronous CCGs - Hoffman | :: | 7 |
| 1995 | - | A speed limit for evolution - Worden | :: | 6 |
| 1996 | - | Are humans good intuitive statisticians after all? Rethinking some conclusions from the literature on judgement under uncertainty - Cosmides,Tooby | :: | 6 |
| 1969 | - | A study of grammatical inference - Horning | :: | 6 |
| 1997 | - | Shifting triggers and diachronic reanalyses - Lightfoot | :: | 6 |
| 1988 | - | Learning as inference - Staddon | :: | 5 |
| 1988 | - | Combinators and grammars - Steedman | :: | 5 |
| 1983 | - | How many possible human languages are there? - Pullum | :: | 5 |
| 1995 | - | The Computational Analysis of the Syntax and Interpretation of `Free' Word Order in Turkish - Hoffman | :: | 5 |
| 1999 | - | Order-independent typed default unification - Lascarides,Copestake | :: | 5 |
| 1990 | - | Reply to Pinker and Bloom - Ridley | :: | 4 |
| 1987 | - | Modelling Human Speech Comprehension: A Computational Approach - Briscoe | :: | 4 |
| 1996 | - | Surface Structure and Interpretation - Steedman | :: | 4 |
| 1996 | - | Learning from positive data - Muggleton | :: | 4 |
| 1996 | - | Orderindependent and persistent default unification - Lascarides,Briscoe,Copestake,Asher | :: | 4 |
| 1989 | - | Stochastic Complexity in Statistical Inquiry - Rissanen | :: | 4 |
| 1989 | - | Language acquisition: growth or learning? - Sampson | :: | 3 |
| 1997 | - | Learning stochastic categorial grammars - Osborne,Briscoe | :: | 3 |
| 1994 | - | Constraint-based categorial grammar - Bouma,van Noord | :: | 3 |
| 1996 | - | Underspecified first-order logics - Alshawi | :: | 2 |
| 1994 | - | A corpus-based analysis of verb continuation frequencies - Merlo | :: | 2 |
| 1995 | - | An optimal yardstick for cognition - Worden | :: | 2 |
| 1997 | - | Probabilistic feature grammars - Goodman | :: | 2 |
| 1997 | - | Stochastic attribute-value grammars - Abney | :: | 2 |