| 1990 | - | Natural language and natural selection - Pinker,Bloom | :: | 168 |
| 1998 | - | Computational simulations of the emergence of grammar - Batali | :: | 99 |
| 2001 | - | Spontaneous evolution of linguistic structure: an iterated learning model of the emergence of regularity and irregularity - Kirby | :: | 96 |
| 1999 | - | The evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer | :: | 93 |
| 2001 | - | Evolution of universal grammar - Nowak,Komarova,Niyogi | :: | 90 |
| 1990 | - | Language and Species - Bickerton | :: | 87 |
| 2002 | - | The Faculty of Language: What Is It, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve? - Hauser,Chomsky,Fitch | :: | 82 |
| 2000 | - | The evolution of syntactic communication - Nowak,Plotkin,Jansen | :: | 81 |
| 2002 | - | Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution - Jackendoff | :: | 59 |
| 1984 | - | The Biology and Evolution of Language - Lieberman | :: | 44 |
| 1995 | - | The Minimalist Program - Chomsky | :: | 38 |
| 1999 | - | The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition - Tomasello | :: | 23 |
| 2001 | - | Principles of Linguistic Change - Labov | :: | 20 |
| 2003 | - | Least effort and the origins of scaling in human language - Ferrer-i-Cancho,Sole | :: | 19 |
| 2005 | - | An Experimental Study of the Emergence of Human Communication Systems - Galantucci | :: | 9 |
| 2004 | - | Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar - Prince,Smolensky | :: | 8 |
| 1993 | - | Formal Semantics: An Introduction - Cann | :: | 5 |
| 1993 | - | Implicit Learning and Tacit Knowledge - Reber | :: | 3 |
| 1968 | - | A History of Mathematics - Boyer | :: | 1 |
| 1964 | - | Elements of General Lingusitics - Martinet | :: | 1 |