| 1990 | - | Natural language and natural selection - Pinker,Bloom | :: | 168 |
| 1994 | - | The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language - Pinker | :: | 120 |
| 2001 | - | Spontaneous evolution of linguistic structure: an iterated learning model of the emergence of regularity and irregularity - Kirby | :: | 96 |
| 1999 | - | The evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer | :: | 93 |
| 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 |
| 2000 | - | The evolution of syntactic communication - Nowak,Plotkin,Jansen | :: | 81 |
| 1998 | - | Approaches to the Evolution of Language: Social and Cognitive Bases - Hurford,Studdert-Kennedy,Knight | :: | 55 |
| 1999 | - | The evolutionary language game - Nowak,Plotkin,Krakauer | :: | 51 |
| 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 |
| 2001 | - | The evolutionary dynamics of grammar acquisition - Komarova,Niyogi,Nowak | :: | 33 |
| 1997 | - | Evolutionary Consequences of Language Learning - Niyogi,Berwick | :: | 29 |
| 1999 | - | Possible stages in the evolution of the language capacity - Jackendoff | :: | 26 |
| 2001 | - | A forkhead-domain gene is mutated in a severe speech and language disorder - Lai,Fisher,Hurst,Vargha-Khadem,Monaco | :: | 25 |
| 2001 | - | The evolutionary dynamics of the lexical matrix - Komarova,Nowak | :: | 20 |
| 1999 | - | An error limit for the evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer,Dress | :: | 19 |
| 1997 | - | A Dynamical Systems Model for Language Change - Niyogi,Berwick | :: | 17 |
| 1998 | - | Evolutionary Games and Population Dynamics - Hofbauer,Sigmund | :: | 16 |
| 2000 | - | Language evolution and information theory - Plotkin,Nowak | :: | 15 |
| 1988 | - | Language and Problems of Knowledge - Chomsky | :: | 13 |
| 2000 | - | Nash equilibria for an evolutionary language game - Trapa,Nowak | :: | 11 |
| 2003 | - | Bifurcation Analysis of the Fully Symmetric Language Dynamical Equation - Mitchener | :: | 8 |
| 1990 | - | Nonlinear Oscillations, Dynamical Systems, and Bifurcations of Vector Fields - Guckenheimer,Holmes | :: | 5 |
| 2004 | - | Chaos and Language - Mitchener,Nowak | :: | 5 |
| 2002 | - | Foundations of Language - Jackendoff | :: | 1 |
| 2002 | - | Computational and evolutionary aspects of language - Nowak | :: | 1 |
| 2001 | - | Natural selection of the critical period for language acquisition - Komarova | :: | 1 |
| 2004 | - | Proceedings of the Royal Society of London - Chaos,Chaos | :: | 1 |
| 2003 | - | A Mathematical Model of Human Languages: The interaction of game dynamics and learning processes - Mitchener | :: | 1 |