| 2001 | - | The evolutionary dynamics of grammar acquisition - Komarova,Niyogi,Nowak | :: | 33 |
| 2001 | - | Evolution of universal grammar - Nowak,Komarova,Niyogi | :: | 90 |
| 2000 | - | The evolution of syntactic communication - Nowak,Plotkin,Jansen | :: | 81 |
| 1999 | - | Co-Evolution of Language Size and the Critical Period - Hurford,Kirby | :: | 7 |
| 1999 | - | The development of language: Acquisition, change and evolution - Lightfoot | :: | 41 |
| 1999 | - | The evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer | :: | 93 |
| 1999 | - | An error limit for the evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer,Dress | :: | 19 |
| 1998 | - | Constraints on information processing and their e¡ects on behavior - Dukas | :: | 1 |
| 1998 | - | The informational complexity of learning - Niyogi | :: | 18 |
| 1997 | - | Evolutionary Consequences of Language Learning - Niyogi,Berwick | :: | 29 |
| 1997 | - | The architecture of the language faculty - Jackendo | :: | 3 |
| 1996 | - | A Language Learning Model for Finite Parameter Spaces - Niyogi,Berwick | :: | 24 |
| 1996 | - | Landscapes, learning costs and genetic assimilation - Mayley | :: | 6 |
| 1996 | - | Maturation and the evolution of imitative learning in arti¢cial organisms - Cecconi,Menczer,Belew | :: | 1 |
| 1994 | - | The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language - Pinker | :: | 120 |
| 1993 | - | A minimalist program for linguistic theory - Chomsky | :: | 4 |
| 1993 | - | The child's path to spoken language - Locke | :: | 4 |
| 1992 | - | Early language development and its neural correlates - Bates,Thal,Janowsky | :: | 2 |
| 1991 | - | The Evolution of the Critical Period for Language Acquisition - Hurford | :: | 31 |
| 1991 | - | How to Set Parameters: Arguments from Language Change - Lightfoot | :: | 33 |
| 1990 | - | Natural language and natural selection - Pinker,Bloom | :: | 168 |
| 1990 | - | Morphometric study of human cerebral cortex development - Huttenlocher | :: | 2 |
| 1989 | - | First language acquisition: method, description, and explanation - Ingram | :: | 1 |
| 1987 | - | Toward a theory for the evolution of cultural communication: coevolution of signal transmission and reception - Aoki,Feldman | :: | 4 |
| 1986 | - | Systems that learn - Osherson,Stob,Weinstein | :: | 13 |
| 1982 | - | Evolution and the theory of games - Maynard-Smith | :: | 44 |
| 1982 | - | The language lottery, towards a biology of grammars - Lightfoot | :: | 2 |
| 1981 | - | Cultural Transmission and Evolution: A quantitative approach - Cavalli-Sforza,Feldman | :: | 45 |
| 1981 | - | Explanation in linguistics - Hornstein,Lightfoot | :: | 5 |
| 1980 | - | Rules and representations - Chomsky | :: | 55 |
| 1980 | - | Formal principles of language acquisition - Wexler,Culicover | :: | 30 |
| 1979 | - | The hypercycle - Eigen,Schuster | :: | 5 |
| 1967 | - | Biological foundations of language - Lenneberg | :: | 21 |
| 1950 | - | Equilibrium points in n-person games - Nash | :: | 2 |