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| 1997 | - | The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain - Deacon | :: | 142 |
| 1998 | - | Approaches to the Evolution of Language: Social and Cognitive Bases - Hurford,Studdert-Kennedy,Knight | :: | 55 |
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| 1998 | - | The frame/content theory of evolution of speech production - MacNeilage | :: | 28 |
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| 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 |
| 2000 | - | Using artificial language learning to study language evolution: Exploring the emergence of word order universals - Christiansen | :: | 7 |
| 2001 | - | The Origins of Syllable Systems: An Operational Model - Oudeyer | :: | 7 |
| 1999 | - | Behavior-based Robotics - Arkin | :: | 7 |
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| 1990 | - | Maturational Constraints on Language Development - Long | :: | 4 |
| 1997 | - | Optimality theory - Archangeli,Langendoen | :: | 4 |
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| 1997 | - | All pole models of auditory filtering - Lyon | :: | 4 |
| 1999 | - | Investigating the Emergence of Speech Sounds - de~Boer | :: | 4 |
| 1998 | - | Miikkulainen Modeling the Emergence of Syllable Systems - Redford,Chen | :: | 3 |
| 1998 | - | Perceiving talking faces - Massaro | :: | 3 |
| 1992 | - | Speech learning in a second language - Flege | :: | 2 |
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