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| 1990 | - | Language and Species - Bickerton | :: | 87 |
| 2002 | - | Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution - Jackendoff | :: | 59 |
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| 1986 | - | Knowledge of language - Chomsky | :: | 23 |
| 1999 | - | Emergence of Language - MacWhinney | :: | 16 |
| 2001 | - | Children creating language: how Nicaraguan sign language acquired a spatial grammar - Senghas,Coppola | :: | 16 |
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| 1998 | - | On the Co-evolution of Language, Mind and Brain - Givón | :: | 7 |
| 1998 | - | The role of diffusion in the genesis of Hawaiian Creole - Roberts | :: | 6 |
| 2002 | - | Competition and selection in language evolution - Mufwene | :: | 6 |
| 2000 | - | How protolanguage became language - Bickerton | :: | 6 |
| 1988 | - | Creole languages and the bioprogram - Bickerton | :: | 6 |
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| 2000 | - | New horizons in the study of language and mind - Chomsky | :: | 4 |
| 1999 | - | Language creation and language change: Creolization, diachrony, and development - DeGraff | :: | 4 |
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| 1999 | - | How to acquire language without positive evidence: What acquisitionists can learn from creoles - Bickerton | :: | 3 |
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| 2001 | - | Creolization of language and culture - Chaudenson | :: | 3 |
| 1994 | - | On decreolization: The case of Gullah - Mufwene | :: | 2 |
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| 1973 | - | Getting the words in - Bolinger | :: | 2 |
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| 2000 | - | Creolization is a social, not a structural, process - Mufwene | :: | 2 |
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| 2000 | - | Language and hybridization: Pidgin tales from the China coast - Bolton | :: | 1 |
| 1984 | - | Substrate and universals in the Tok Pisin verb phrase - Sankoff | :: | 1 |
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| 1999 | - | The language bioprogram hypothesis: Hints from Tazie - Mufwene | :: | 1 |
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| 1989 | - | The lexical learning hypothesis and the pidgin-creole cycle - Bickerton | :: | 1 |
| 2000 | - | Generativity, entrenchment, evolution, and innateness - Wimsatt | :: | 1 |
| 1983 | - | Creolization and language change - Polome | :: | 1 |
| 1997 | - | Perspectives on an emerging language - Kegl,McWhorter | :: | 1 |
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| 1988 | - | Melanesian Pidgin and the Oceanic substrate - Keesing | :: | 1 |
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