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| 1997 | - | The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain - Deacon | :: | 142 |
| 1997 | - | The synthetic modeling of language origins - Steels | :: | 123 |
| 1989 | - | Biological evolution of the Saussurean sign as a component of the language acquisition device - Hurford | :: | 102 |
| 1998 | - | Computational simulations of the emergence of grammar - Batali | :: | 99 |
| 1990 | - | Language and Species - Bickerton | :: | 87 |
| 1999 | - | Function, Selection and Innateness: the Emergence of Language Universals - Kirby | :: | 76 |
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| 1992 | - | Synthetic Ethology: An approach to the study of communication - MacLennan | :: | 56 |
| 1996 | - | Emergent Adaptive Lexicons - Steels | :: | 56 |
| 1997 | - | Learning, culture and evolution in the origin of linguistic constraints - Kirby,Hurford | :: | 54 |
| 1990 | - | Finding structure in time - Elman | :: | 49 |
| 1994 | - | Innate biases and critical periods: Combining evolution and learning in the acquisition of syntax - Batali | :: | 46 |
| 1998 | - | Fitness and the selective adaptation of language - Kirby | :: | 33 |
| 1981 | - | Roots of language - Bickerton | :: | 32 |
| 1991 | - | The Evolution of the Critical Period for Language Acquisition - Hurford | :: | 31 |
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| 1995 | - | The Logical Problem of Language Change - Niyogi,Berwick | :: | 26 |
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| 1997 | - | Formal Approaches to Innate and Learned Communication: Laying the Foundation for Language - Oliphant | :: | 25 |
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| 1997 | - | Recursive inconsistencies are hard to learn: A connectionist perspective on universal word order correlations - Christiansen,Devlin | :: | 18 |
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| 1994 | - | Bayesian Learning of Probabilistic Language Models - STOLCKE | :: | 11 |
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