| 1990 | - | Natural language and natural selection - Pinker,Bloom | :: | 168 |
| 1997 | - | The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain - Deacon | :: | 142 |
| 1994 | - | The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language - Pinker | :: | 120 |
| 1999 | - | The evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer | :: | 93 |
| 2001 | - | Evolution of universal grammar - Nowak,Komarova,Niyogi | :: | 90 |
| 1965 | - | Aspects of the Theory of Syntax - CHOMSKY | :: | 88 |
| 1997 | - | The Evolution of Communication - Hauser | :: | 88 |
| 1990 | - | Language and Species - Bickerton | :: | 87 |
| 2000 | - | The evolution of syntactic communication - Nowak,Plotkin,Jansen | :: | 81 |
| 1980 | - | Rules and Representations - CHOMSKY | :: | 55 |
| 1999 | - | The development of language: Acquisition, change and evolution - Lightfoot | :: | 41 |
| 1996 | - | Emergence of net-grammar in communicating agents - Hashimoto,Ikegami | :: | 39 |
| 1981 | - | Lectures on Government and Binding - CHOMSKY | :: | 37 |
| 1991 | - | How to Set Parameters: Arguments from Language Change - Lightfoot | :: | 33 |
| 1980 | - | Formal Principles of Language Acquisition - WEXLER,CULICOVER | :: | 30 |
| 1997 | - | Evolutionary Consequences of Language Learning - Niyogi,Berwick | :: | 29 |
| 1996 | - | A Language Learning Model for Finite Parameter Spaces - Niyogi,Berwick | :: | 24 |
| 1994 | - | Triggers - GIBSON,WEXLER | :: | 23 |
| 1999 | - | An error limit for the evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer,Dress | :: | 19 |
| 1998 | - | The Informational Complexity of Learning - NIYOGI | :: | 18 |
| 1986 | - | Systems That Learn - OSHERSON,STOB,WEINSTEIN | :: | 13 |
| 1997 | - | The Architecture of the Language Faculty - JACKENDOFF | :: | 13 |
| 1995 | - | The Nature of Statistical Learning Theory - VAPNIK | :: | 11 |
| 2000 | - | The basic reproductive ratio of a word, the maximum size of a lexicon - Nowak | :: | 10 |
| 1995 | - | Evolution of Symbolic Grammar Systems - Hashimoto,Ikegami | :: | 9 |
| 1993 | - | Optimality theory: constraint interaction in generative grammar - PRINCE,SMOLENSKY | :: | 8 |
| 2001 | - | Natural selection of the critical period for language acquisition - Komarova,Nowak | :: | 8 |
| 1984 | - | A theory of the learnable - VALIANT | :: | 8 |
| 2000 | - | Learnability in Optimality Theory - TESAR,SMOLENSKY | :: | 7 |
| 1979 | - | The Hypercycle: A Principle of Natural Self-Organization - EIGEN,SCHUSTER | :: | 7 |
| 1997 | - | Optimality: From Neural Networks to Universal Grammar - Prince,Smolensky | :: | 6 |
| 1986 | - | From icons to symbols: some speculations on the origins of language - BRANDON,HORNSTEIN | :: | 5 |
| 1981 | - | Explanation in Linguistics - HORNSTEIN,LIGHTFOOT | :: | 5 |
| 1993 | - | A minimalist program for linguistic theory - CHOMSKY | :: | 4 |
| 1982 | - | The Language Lottery, Towards a Biology of Grammars - LIGHTFOOT | :: | 2 |
| 1999 | - | Language Acquisition: Knowledge, Representation and Processing - SORACE,HEYCOCK,SHILLCOCK | :: | 1 |
| 1987 | - | Spectral properties of Eigen's evolution matrices - RUMSCHITZKY | :: | 1 |
| 1959 | - | Review of Skinner 1957 - CHOMSKY | :: | 1 |
| 1988 | - | Regular and irregular morphology and the psychological status of rules of grammar - PINKER,PRINCE | :: | 1 |