| 2006 | - | From usage to grammar: the mind's response to repetition - Bybee | :: | 2 |
| 2005 | - | Phonetic explanations for sound patterns: Implications for grammars of competence - Ohala | :: | 1 |
| 2005 | - | Cultural constraints on grammar and cognition in Piraha: Another look at the design features of human language - Everett | :: | 3 |
| 2003 | - | Intergenerational influence and ontogenetic development in the emergence of spatial grammar in Nicaraguan Sign Language - Senghas | :: | 3 |
| 2002 | - | Expression/induction models of language evolution: dimensions and issues - Hurford | :: | 31 |
| 2002 | - | The Faculty of Language: What Is It, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve? - Hauser,Chomsky,Fitch | :: | 82 |
| 2002 | - | On the Evolution of Grammatical Forms - Heine,Kuteva | :: | 6 |
| 2002 | - | Language emergence in a language-ready brain: Acquisition issues - Kegl | :: | 1 |
| 2001 | - | The Origins of Vowel Systems - de~Boer | :: | 40 |
| 2001 | - | Spontaneous evolution of linguistic structure: an iterated learning model of the emergence of regularity and irregularity - Kirby | :: | 96 |
| 2001 | - | Children creating language: how Nicaraguan sign language acquired a spatial grammar - Senghas,Coppola | :: | 16 |
| 2000 | - | Principles of linguistic change - Labov | :: | 20 |
| 2000 | - | Syntactic change - Kroch | :: | 8 |
| 2000 | - | Effects of Compression on Language Evolution - Teal,Taylor | :: | 11 |
| 1999 | - | The development of language: Acquisition, change and evolution - Lightfoot | :: | 41 |
| 1999 | - | Creation through contact: Sign language emergence and sign language change in Nicaragua - Kegl,Senghas,Coppola | :: | 10 |
| 1995 | - | The development of Nicaraguan Sign Language via the language acquisition process - Senghas | :: | 3 |
| 1995 | - | Children's contribution to the birth of Nicaraguan sign language - Senghas | :: | 5 |
| 1995 | - | Learning and morphological change - Hare,Elman | :: | 41 |
| 1993 | - | Grammaticalization - Hopper,Traugott | :: | 13 |
| 1991 | - | On some principles of grammaticization - Hopper | :: | 1 |
| 1990 | - | Nativist and functional explanations in language acquisition - Hurford | :: | 26 |
| 1986 | - | Knowledge of language: Its nature, origin and use - Chomsky | :: | 32 |
| 1981 | - | Lectures on government and binding - Chomsky | :: | 37 |
| 1978 | - | In search of Jove's brow - Hockett | :: | 1 |
| 1973 | - | Abductive and deductive change - Andersen | :: | 14 |
| 1965 | - | Aspects of the theory of syntax - Chomsky | :: | 88 |
| 1963 | - | Some universals of grammar with particular reference to the order of meaningful elements - Greenberg | :: | 15 |
| 1949 | - | The concept of mind - Ryle | :: | 1 |
| 1921 | - | Language: An introduction to the study of speech - Sapir | :: | 4 |