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| 2001 | - | Spontaneous evolution of linguistic structure: an iterated learning model of the emergence of regularity and irregularity - Kirby | :: | 96 |
| 2001 | - | Evolution of universal grammar - Nowak,Komarova,Niyogi | :: | 90 |
| 1997 | - | The Evolution of Communication - Hauser | :: | 88 |
| 2002 | - | Simulating the evolution of language - Cangelosi,Parisi | :: | 88 |
| 1996 | - | Self-organizing vocabularies - Steels | :: | 67 |
| 2002 | - | Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution - Jackendoff | :: | 59 |
| 1998 | - | Approaches to the Evolution of Language: Social and Cognitive Bases - Hurford,Studdert-Kennedy,Knight | :: | 55 |
| 1967 | - | Language identification in the limit - Gold | :: | 54 |
| 2002 | - | Computational and evolutionary aspects of language - Nowak,Komarova,Niyogi | :: | 49 |
| 1999 | - | The development of language: Acquisition, change and evolution - Lightfoot | :: | 41 |
| 2000 | - | Grammatical Acquisition: Inductive Bias and Coevolution of Language and the Language Acquisition Device - Briscoe | :: | 36 |
| 1991 | - | How to Set Parameters: Arguments from Language Change - Lightfoot | :: | 33 |
| 2001 | - | A forkhead-domain gene is mutated in a severe speech and language disorder - Lai,Fisher,Hurst,Vargha-Khadem,Monaco | :: | 25 |
| 1996 | - | A Language Learning Model for Finite Parameter Spaces - Niyogi,Berwick | :: | 24 |
| 1996 | - | Historical linguistics - Trask | :: | 18 |
| 1998 | - | Evolutionary games and population dynamics - Hofbauer,Sigmund | :: | 16 |
| 1988 | - | Language and problems of knowledge - Chomsky | :: | 13 |
| 1986 | - | Systems that learn - Osherson,Stob,Weinstein | :: | 13 |
| 1995 | - | The nature of statistical learning theory - Vapnik | :: | 11 |
| 2003 | - | Bifurcation Analysis of the Fully Symmetric Language Dynamical Equation - Mitchener | :: | 8 |
| 1984 | - | A theory of the learnable - Valiant | :: | 8 |
| 1990 | - | Nonlinear oscillations, dynamical systems, and bifurcations of vector fields - Guckenheimer,Holmes | :: | 5 |
| 2003 | - | Competitive Exclusion and Coexistence of Universal Grammars - Mitchener,Nowak | :: | 5 |
| 1987 | - | Learning regular sets from queries and counter examples - Angluin | :: | 5 |
| 2002 | - | Unifying evolutionary dynamics - Page,Nowak | :: | 3 |
| 1993 | - | Chaos and the evolution of cooperation - Nowak,Sigmund | :: | 3 |
| 1992 | - | Mutation in autocatalytic reaction networks - Stadler,Schuster | :: | 2 |
| 1998 | - | An introduction to historical linguistics - Crowley | :: | 2 |
| 1972 | - | Extension of covariance mathematics - Price | :: | 2 |