| 1990 | - | Natural language and natural selection - Pinker,Bloom | :: | 168 |
| 1997 | - | The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain - Deacon | :: | 142 |
| 1994 | - | The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language - Pinker | :: | 120 |
| 1989 | - | Biological evolution of the Saussurean sign as a component of the language acquisition device - Hurford | :: | 102 |
| 1998 | - | Computational simulations of the emergence of grammar - Batali | :: | 99 |
| 1990 | - | Language and Species - Bickerton | :: | 87 |
| 2002 | - | Learning, Bottlenecks and the Evolution of Recursive Syntax - Kirby | :: | 86 |
| 1992 | - | Evolution of Communication in Artificial Organisms - Werner,Dyer | :: | 82 |
| 2000 | - | Syntax without Natural Selection: How compositionality emerges from vocabulary in a population of learners - Kirby | :: | 81 |
| 1997 | - | Learning and the emergence of coordinated communication - Oliphant,Batali | :: | 61 |
| 1997 | - | Learning, culture and evolution in the origin of linguistic constraints - Kirby,Hurford | :: | 54 |
| 1990 | - | How monkeys see the world: Inside the mind of another species - Cheney,Seyfarth | :: | 52 |
| 1994 | - | Innate biases and critical periods: Combining evolution and learning in the acquisition of syntax - Batali | :: | 46 |
| 1981 | - | Roots of language - Bickerton | :: | 32 |
| 1984 | - | The Language Bioprogram Hypothesis - Bickerton | :: | 30 |
| 1989 | - | Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and Machine Learning - GOLDBERG | :: | 29 |
| 1997 | - | Statistical learning by 8 month old infants - SAFFRAN,ASLIN,NEWPORT | :: | 24 |
| 1999 | - | Syntax out of Learning: the cultural evolution of structured communication in a population of induction algorithms - Kirby | :: | 23 |
| 1994 | - | Triggers - GIBSON,WEXLER | :: | 23 |
| 2002 | - | Grammatical Acquisition and Linguistic Selection - Briscoe | :: | 22 |
| 1967 | - | Biological foundations of language - LENNEBERG | :: | 21 |
| 1991 | - | Familial aggregation of a developmental language disorder - GOPNIK,CRAGO | :: | 20 |
| 1998 | - | Language as a Complex Adaptive System: Coevolution of Language and of the Language Acquisition Device - Briscoe | :: | 15 |
| 1981 | - | Government and Binding - CHOMSKY | :: | 13 |
| 1999 | - | The Acquisition of Grammar in an Evolving Population of Language Agents - Briscoe | :: | 10 |
| 1995 | - | Small Signaling Systems can Evolve in the Absence of Benefit to the Information Sender - Batali | :: | 9 |
| 1992 | - | Genetic Programming: On the programming of computers by means of natural selection - KOZA | :: | 8 |
| 1992 | - | On the Evolution of Human Language - Lieberman | :: | 7 |
| 1996 | - | The formal properties of synchronous CCGs - HOFFMAN | :: | 7 |
| 1975 | - | On the Origins of Language: An Introduction to the Evolution of Human Speech - Lieberman | :: | 5 |
| 1984 | - | Cross-language speech perception -- evidence for perceptual reorganization during the first year of life - WERKER,TEES | :: | 5 |
| 1989 | - | Limits on negative information in language input - MORGAN,TRAVIS | :: | 5 |
| 1977 | - | Genie: A linguistic study of a modern-day ``wild child'' - CURTISS | :: | 5 |
| 1997 | - | Argument structure in Nicaraguan sign language: The emergence of grammatical devices - SENGHAS,COPPOLA,NEWPORT,SUPALLA | :: | 4 |
| 1971 | - | Speech perception in infants - EIMAS,SIQUELAND,JUSCZYK,VIGORITO | :: | 4 |
| 1986 | - | Feedback to first language learners: the role of repetitions and clarification questions - DEMETRAS,POST,SNOW | :: | 4 |
| 1987 | - | A new look at ape language: comprehension of vocal speech and syntax - SAVAGE-RUMBAUGH | :: | 3 |
| 1999 | - | Acquiring basic word order: evidence for data-driven learning of syntactic structure - AKHTAR | :: | 3 |
| 1958 | - | Words and things - BROWN | :: | 3 |
| 1997 | - | Lexically-based learning and early grammatical development - LIEVEN,PINE,BALDWIN | :: | 3 |
| 1974 | - | The development of language in Genie: A case of language acquisition beyond the ``critical period - FROMKIN,KRASHEN,CURTISS,RIGLER,RIGLER | :: | 3 |
| 1998 | - | Evidence for verb agreement in the gesture systems of older Nicaraguan home signers - COPPOLA,SENGHAS,NEWPORT,SUPALLA | :: | 2 |
| 1980 | - | Reference: The linguistic essential - SAVAGE-RUMBAUGH,RUMBAUGH,SMITH,LAWSON | :: | 2 |
| 2000 | - | CS 426 Course Reader: Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming - KOZA | :: | 2 |
| 1989 | - | Familiar aggregation in Specific Language Impairment - TALLAL,ROSS,CURTISS | :: | 2 |
| 1999 | - | Model learning in syntactic development: Intransitive verbs - NINIO | :: | 2 |
| 1993 | - | Negative evidence in language acquisition - MARCUS | :: | 2 |
| 1995 | - | Why the child holded the baby rabbits: A case study in language acquisition - PINKER | :: | 2 |
| 1985 | - | Learning how to use verbs: lexical coding and the influence of the input - DE VILLIERS | :: | 2 |
| 1984 | - | Expanded intonation contours in mother's speech to newborns - FERNALD,SIMON | :: | 2 |
| 1997 | - | Deficits in auditory temporal and spectral resolution in language-impaired children - WRIGHT,LOMBARDINO,KING,PURANIK,LEONARD,MERZENICH | :: | 2 |
| 1995 | - | The cognitive and neural bases of language acquisition - STROMSWOLD | :: | 2 |
| 1996 | - | From Lucy to Language - JOHANSON,EDGAR | :: | 2 |
| 1993 | - | Human Evolution - LEWIN | :: | 2 |
| 1991 | - | Dissociation between language and cognitive function in Williams Syndrome - BELLUGI,MARKS,BIRHLE,SABO | :: | 2 |
| 1983 | - | A constraint on comparisons: equally detailed alternatives - SHIPLEY,KUHN | :: | 2 |
| 1995 | - | Language is Not an Instinct - TOMASELLO | :: | 2 |
| 1992 | - | First words: A case study of early grammatical development - TOMASELLO | :: | 2 |
| 1989 | - | Perceptual development - GOLDSTEIN | :: | 2 |
| 1996 | - | The development of Saussurean communication - OLPIPHANT | :: | 1 |
| 1995 | - | Synthetic etiology and the evolution of cooperative communication - MACLENNON,BURGHARDT | :: | 1 |
| 1994 | - | Linguistic abilities in children with Williams-Beuren Syndrom - GOSCH,STADING,PANKAU | :: | 1 |
| 1994 | - | The Origin of Language - RUHLEN | :: | 1 |
| 1989 | - | A cross-linguistic study of prosodic modifications in mothers' and fathers' speech to preverbal infants - FERNALD,TAESCHNER,DUNN,PAPOUSEK,DE DOYSSON-BARIES,FUKUI | :: | 1 |