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| 1999 | - | The evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer | :: | 93 |
| 2000 | - | The evolution of syntactic communication - Nowak,Plotkin,Jansen | :: | 81 |
| 1967 | - | Language identification in the limit - Gold | :: | 54 |
| 1999 | - | The evolutionary language game - Nowak,Plotkin,Krakauer | :: | 51 |
| 1972 | - | Language and Mind - Chomsky | :: | 42 |
| 1999 | - | The development of language: Acquisition, change and evolution - Lightfoot | :: | 41 |
| 2001 | - | The evolutionary dynamics of grammar acquisition - Komarova,Niyogi,Nowak | :: | 33 |
| 1991 | - | How to Set Parameters: Arguments from Language Change - Lightfoot | :: | 33 |
| 1981 | - | Roots of language - Bickerton | :: | 32 |
| 2001 | - | The evolutionary dynamics of the lexical matrix - Komarova,Nowak | :: | 20 |
| 2001 | - | Children creating language: how Nicaraguan sign language acquired a spatial grammar - Senghas,Coppola | :: | 16 |
| 1988 | - | Language and Problems of Knowledge - Chomsky | :: | 13 |
| 1998 | - | Evolutionary Games and Replicator Dynamics - Hofbauer,Sigmund | :: | 7 |
| 1990 | - | Nonlinear Oscillations, Dynamical Systems, and Bifurcations of Vector Fields - Guckenheimer,Holmes | :: | 5 |
| 1994 | - | Linguistic Inquiry - Gibson,Triggers | :: | 5 |
| 1997 | - | Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems, and Linear Algebra - Hirsch,Smale | :: | 5 |
| 1971 | - | Selforganization of matter and the evolution of biological macromolecules - Eigen | :: | 4 |
| 1989 | - | The molecular quasi-species - Eigen,McCaskill,Schuster | :: | 3 |
| 1989 | - | Symmetry breaking and the maximal isotropy subgroup conjecture for reflection groups - Field,Richardson | :: | 2 |
| 1992 | - | The dynamics of n weakly coupled identical oscillators - Ashwin,Swift | :: | 2 |