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| 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 |
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| 1992 | - | Evolution of Communication in Artificial Organisms - Werner,Dyer | :: | 82 |
| 1997 | - | Grounding adaptive language games in robotic agents - Steels,Vogt | :: | 74 |
| 1996 | - | Self-organizing vocabularies - Steels | :: | 67 |
| 1998 | - | The emergence of a language in an evolving population of neural networks - Cangelosi,Parisi | :: | 64 |
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| 1996 | - | Emergent Adaptive Lexicons - Steels | :: | 56 |
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| 1996 | - | Emergence of net-grammar in communicating agents - Hashimoto,Ikegami | :: | 39 |
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| 1998 | - | Fitness and the selective adaptation of language - Kirby | :: | 33 |
| 1997 | - | Constructing and sharing perceptual distinctions - Steels | :: | 31 |
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| 1997 | - | Generating vowel systems in a population of agents - de~Boer | :: | 19 |
| 1999 | - | Spatially Distributed Naming Games - Steels,McIntyre | :: | 17 |
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| 1995 | - | Darwin's Dangerous Idea - Dennett | :: | 6 |
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| 1995 | - | The Biology and Technology of Intelligent Autonomous Agents - Steels | :: | 3 |
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