| 1999 | - | Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language - Pinker | :: | 14 |
| 1999 | - | The development of language: Acquisition, change and evolution - Lightfoot | :: | 41 |
| 1999 | - | The evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer | :: | 93 |
| 1998 | - | The Informational Complexity of Learning - Niyogi | :: | 18 |
| 1998 | - | Approaches to the Evolution of Language: Social and Cognitive Bases - Hurford,Studdert-Kennedy,Knight | :: | 55 |
| 1997 | - | The Evolution of Communication - Hauser | :: | 88 |
| 1997 | - | The Architecture of the Language Faculty - Jackendoff | :: | 13 |
| 1997 | - | The Major Transitions in Evolution - Maynard-Smith,Szathmary | :: | 57 |
| 1996 | - | Emergence of net-grammar in communicating agents - Hashimoto,Ikegami | :: | 39 |
| 1995 | - | The Nature of Statistical Learning Theory - Vapnik | :: | 11 |
| 1994 | - | The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language - Pinker | :: | 120 |
| 1991 | - | Functional explanation in linguistics and the origins of language - Newmeyer | :: | 26 |
| 1990 | - | Natural language and natural selection - Pinker,Bloom | :: | 168 |
| 1990 | - | Syntactic Theory and the Acquisition of English Syntax - Radford | :: | 1 |
| 1986 | - | Systems That Learn - Osherson,Stob,Weinstein | :: | 13 |
| 1986 | - | Language Acquisition and the Theory of Parameters - Hyams | :: | 8 |
| 1981 | - | Explanation in Linguistics - Hornstein,Lightfoot | :: | 5 |
| 1980 | - | Rules and Representations - Chomsky | :: | 55 |
| 1980 | - | Formal Principles of Language Acquisition - Wexler,Culicover | :: | 30 |
| 1972 | - | Linguistic Variability and Intellectual Development - von Humboldt | :: | 2 |
| 1967 | - | Language identification in the limit - Gold | :: | 54 |