| 1997 | - | The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain - Deacon | :: | 142 |
| 1997 | - | Grounding adaptive language games in robotic agents - Steels,Vogt | :: | 74 |
| 1990 | - | The Symbol Grounding Problem - Harnad | :: | 70 |
| 2001 | - | The adaptive advantage of symbolic theft over sensorimotor toil: Grounding language in perceptual categories - Cangelosi,Harnad | :: | 31 |
| 2001 | - | AIBO's first words: The social learning of language and meaning - Steels,Kaplan | :: | 30 |
| 2000 | - | How children learn the meanings of words - Bloom | :: | 27 |
| 1987 | - | Women, fire, and dangerous things - Lakoff | :: | 25 |
| 1999 | - | Perceptual symbol systems - Barsalou | :: | 15 |
| 2002 | - | Learning words from sights and sounds: A computational model - Roy,Pentland | :: | 10 |
| 2001 | - | Grounding the Lexical Semantics of Verbs in Visual Perception using Force Dynamics and Event Logic - Siskind | :: | 9 |
| 1996 | - | Unsupervised language acquisition - de Marcken | :: | 8 |
| 1980 | - | Minds, brains, and programs - Searle | :: | 7 |
| 1983 | - | Semantics and cognition - Jackendoff | :: | 7 |
| 1992 | - | Naive physics, event perception, lexical semantics, and language acquisition - Siskind | :: | 6 |
| 1991 | - | Elements of information theory - Cover,Thomas | :: | 6 |
| 1986 | - | A robust layered control system for a mobile robot - Brooks | :: | 5 |
| 1996 | - | The human semantic potential - Regier | :: | 5 |
| 2000 | - | Integration of speech and vision using mutual information - Roy | :: | 4 |
| 1999 | - | An efficient, probabilistically sound algorithm for segmentation and word discovery - Brent | :: | 3 |
| 1987 | - | The body in the mind - Johnson | :: | 3 |
| 1996 | - | Probabilistic object recognition using multidimensional receptive field histograms - Schiele,Crowley | :: | 2 |
| 1996 | - | Models of word segmentation in fluent maternal speech to infants - Aslin,Woodward,LaMendola,Bever | :: | 2 |
| 1999 | - | Learning words from sights and sounds: A computational model - Roy | :: | 2 |
| 1994 | - | An application of recurrent nets to phone probability estimation - Robinson | :: | 2 |
| 1997 | - | Embodied lexical development - Bailey,Feldman,Narayanan,Lakoff | :: | 2 |
| 1932 | - | Division of signs - Peirce | :: | 1 |
| 1994 | - | Early word meanings: the case of object names - Huttenlocher,Smiley | :: | 1 |
| 1989 | - | A tutorial on hidden markov models and selected applications in speech recognition - Rabiner | :: | 1 |
| 1976 | - | Computer science as emperical inquiry: Symbols and search - Newell,Simon | :: | 1 |
| 1992 | - | Linguistic experience alters phonetic perception in infants by 6 months of age - kuhl,Lindblom | :: | 1 |
| 1993 | - | Adaptive language acquisition in a multi-sensory device - Sankar,Gorin | :: | 1 |
| 1988 | - | Getting started with the DARPA TIMIT CD-ROM: An acoustic phonetic continuous speech database - Garofolo | :: | 1 |