| 1990 | - | Natural language and natural selection - Pinker,Bloom | :: | 168 |
| 1998 | - | Approaches to the Evolution of Language: Social and Cognitive Bases - Hurford,Studdert-Kennedy,Knight | :: | 55 |
| 1998 | - | Synthesising the Origins of Language and Meaning Using Co-evolution, Self-organisation and Level formation - Steels | :: | 49 |
| 1998 | - | The frame/content theory of evolution of speech production - MacNeilage | :: | 28 |
| 1968 | - | The Sound Pattern of English - Chomsky,Halle | :: | 25 |
| 1992 | - | Phonological Units as Adaptive Emergents of Lexical Development - Lindblom | :: | 16 |
| 2000 | - | The cultural evolution of syntactic constraints in phonology - Steels,Oudeyer | :: | 11 |
| 2001 | - | Coupled Neural Maps for the Origins of Vowel Systems - Oudeyer | :: | 9 |
| 1988 | - | Preference Laws for Syllable Structure - Vennemann | :: | 7 |
| 1999 | - | Behavior-based Robotics - Arkin | :: | 7 |
| 1997 | - | Optimality theory - Archangeli,Langendoen | :: | 4 |
| 1997 | - | All pole models of auditory filtering - Lyon | :: | 4 |
| 1999 | - | Investigating the Emergence of Speech Sounds - de~Boer | :: | 4 |
| 1998 | - | Modeling the Emergence of Syllable Systems - Redford,Chen,Miikkulainen | :: | 3 |
| 1998 | - | Perceiving talking faces - Massaro | :: | 3 |
| 1995 | - | The role of the syllable in speech segmentation, phoneme identification, and lexical access - Segui,Dupoux,Mehler | :: | 2 |
| 1991 | - | Computations underlying the execution of movement - Bizzi,Mussa-Ivaldi,Giszter | :: | 1 |
| 2001 | - | The origins of syllable systems in a society of truly autonomous robots - P-y | :: | 1 |
| 1995 | - | Cognitive Models of Speech Processing, Psycholinguistics and Computational Perspectives - Altman | :: | 1 |