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[1]   Natural language and natural selection - Pinker,Bloom - 1990   135
[2]   The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain - Deacon - 1997   [ BOOK ]   116
[3]   The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language - Pinker - 1994   [ BOOK ]   94
[4]   Computational simulations of the emergence of grammar - Batali - 1998   87
[5]   Biological evolution of the Saussurean sign as a component of the language acquisition device - Hurford - 1989   86
[6]   The synthetic modeling of language origins - Steels - 1997   86
[7]   Language and Species - Bickerton - 1990   [ BOOK ]   74
[8]   Evolution of Communication in Artificial Organisms - Werner,Dyer - 1992   74
[9]   The Evolution of Communication - Hauser - 1997   [ BOOK ]   71
[10]   The Symbol Grounding Problem - Harnad - 1990   62
[11]   Spontaneous evolution of linguistic structure: an iterated learning model of the emergence of regularity and irregularity - Kirby - 2001   61
[12]   Syntax without Natural Selection: How compositionality emerges from vocabulary in a population of learners - Kirby - 2000   60
[13]   Evolution of universal grammar - Nowak,Komarova,Niyogi - 2001   56
[14]   The evolution of syntactic communication - Nowak,Plotkin,Jansen - 2000   56
[15]   The negotiation and acquisition of recursive grammars as a result of competition among exemplars - Batali - 2002   55
[16]   Learning, Bottlenecks and the Evolution of Recursive Syntax - Kirby - 2002   55
[17]   The evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer - 1999   54
[18]   Simulating the evolution of language - Cangelosi,Parisi - 2002   [ BOOK ]   53
[19]   The dilemma of Saussurean communication - Oliphant - 1996   51
[20]   Learning and the emergence of coordinated communication - Oliphant,Batali - 1997   50
[21]   Language identification in the limit - Gold - 1967   50
[22]   Synthetic Ethology: An approach to the study of communication - MacLennan - 1992   50
[23]   The Faculty of Language: What Is It, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve? - Hauser,Chomsky,Fitch - 2002   49
[24]   Approaches to the Evolution of Language: Social and Cognitive Bases - Hurford,Studdert-Kennedy,Knight - 1998   [ BOOK ]   48
[25]   Finding structure in time - Elman - 1990   45
[26]   How to invent a lexicon: the development of shared symbols in interaction - Hutchins,Hazlehurst - 1995   45
[27]   Natural Language from Artificial Life - Kirby - 2002   45
[28]   Synthesising the Origins of Language and Meaning Using Co-evolution, Self-organisation and Level formation - Steels - 1998   44
[29]   The emergence of a language in an evolving population of neural networks - Cangelosi,Parisi - 1998   43
[30]   The Major Transitions in Evolution - Maynard-Smith,Szathmary - 1997   [ BOOK ]   43
[31]   Self-organizing vocabularies - Steels - 1996   42
[32]   Innate biases and critical periods: Combining evolution and learning in the acquisition of syntax - Batali - 1994   42
[33]   Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution - Jackendoff - 2002   [ BOOK ]   42
[34]   Function, Selection and Innateness: the Emergence of Language Universals - Kirby - 1999   [ BOOK ]   42
[35]   How monkeys see the world: Inside the mind of another species - Cheney,Seyfarth - 1990   [ BOOK ]   42
[36]   Emergent Adaptive Lexicons - Steels - 1996   41
[37]   The development of language: Acquisition, change and evolution - Lightfoot - 1999   [ BOOK ]   38
[38]   Compositional Syntax from Cultural Transmission - Brighton - 2002   38
[39]   The learning barrier: Moving from innate to learned systems of communication - Oliphant - 1999   38
[40]   Grounding adaptive language games in robotic agents - Steels,Vogt - 1997   37
[41]   Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language - Dunbar - 1998   [ BOOK ]   37
[42]   Synthetic Ethology and the Evolution of Cooperative Communication - MacLennan,Burghardt - 1993   37
[43]   The Emergence of Linguistic Structure: An overview of the Iterated Learning Model - Kirby,Hurford - 2002   36
[44]   Altruism in the evolution of communication - Ackley,Littman - 1994   36
[45]   Learning, culture and evolution in the origin of linguistic constraints - Kirby,Hurford - 1997   35
[46]   Linguistic Evolution through Language Acquisition: Formal and Computational Models - Briscoe - 2002   [ BOOK ]   35
[47]   The Biology and Evolution of Language - Lieberman - 1984   [ BOOK ]   35
[48]   Learning and morphological change - Hare,Elman - 1995   33
[49]   Emergence of net-grammar in communicating agents - Hashimoto,Ikegami - 1996   33
[50]   Foundations of cognitive grammar: Theoretical Prerequisites - Langacker - 1987   [ BOOK ]   32
[51]   The evolutionary language game - Nowak,Plotkin,Krakauer - 1999   31
[52]   How to Set Parameters: Arguments from Language Change - Lightfoot - 1991   [ BOOK ]   31
[53]   Perceptually Grounded Meaning Creation - Steels - 1996   30
[54]   Cultural Transmission and Evolution: A quantitative approach - Cavalli-Sforza,Feldman - 1981   [ BOOK ]   30
[55]   Learning and development in neural networks: The importance of starting small - Elman - 1993   29
[56]   The Language Bioprogram Hypothesis - Bickerton - 1984   28
[57]   Crucial Factors in the Origins of Word-Meaning - Steels,Kaplan,McIntyre,Van~Looveren - 2002   28
[58]   The origins of syntax in visually grounded robotic agents - Steels - 1998   28
[59]   The Origins of Vowel Systems - de~Boer - 2001   [ BOOK ]   27
[60]   Roots of language - Bickerton - 1981   [ BOOK ]   27
[61]   Fitness and the selective adaptation of language - Kirby - 1998   27
[62]   Protolanguage as a holistic system for social interaction - Wray - 1998   26
[63]   An adaptive communication protocol for cooperating mobile robots - Yanco,Stein - 1992   25
[64]   Reflexes of grammar in patterns of language change - Kroch - 1989   25
[65]   Social transmission favours linguistic generalization - Hurford - 2000   25
[66]   The Evolution of the Critical Period for Language Acquisition - Hurford - 1991   24
[67]   A Computational Model of Language Learnability and Language Change - Clark,Roberts - 1993   24
[68]   The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Social Function and the Origins of Linguistic Form - Knight,Hurford,Studdert-Kennedy - 2000   [ BOOK ]   23
[69]   Computational and evolutionary aspects of language - Nowak,Komarova,Niyogi - 2002   23
[70]   Formal Approaches to Innate and Learned Communication: Laying the Foundation for Language - Oliphant - 1997   23
[71]   The frame/content theory of evolution of speech production - MacNeilage - 1998   23
[72]   A self-organizing spatial vocabulary - Steels - 1995   23
[73]   Grammatical Acquisition: Inductive Bias and Coevolution of Language and the Language Acquisition Device - Briscoe - 2000   23
[74]   Expression/induction models of language evolution: dimensions and issues - Hurford - 2002   22
[75]   Functional explanation in linguistics and the origins of language - Newmeyer - 1991   22
[76]   Evolutionary Consequences of Language Learning - Niyogi,Berwick - 1997   22
[77]   Modelling the dynamics of language death - Abrams,Strogatz - 2003   22
[78]   Towards an evolutionary theory of language - Nowak,Komarova - 2001   21
[79]   Catastrophic evolution: The case for a single step from protolanguage to full human language - Bickerton - 1998   21
[80]   The Logical Problem of Language Change - Niyogi,Berwick - 1995   21
[81]   Possible stages in the evolution of the language capacity - Jackendoff - 1999   21
[82]   A Language Learning Model for Finite Parameter Spaces - Niyogi,Berwick - 1996   20
[83]   Iterated Learning: a framework for the emergence of language - Smith,Kirby,Brighton - 2003   19
[84]   The evolutionary dynamics of grammar acquisition - Komarova,Niyogi,Nowak - 2001   19
[85]   Language and Number: the emergence of a cognitive system - Hurford - 1987   [ BOOK ]   19
[86]   Modelling the Evolution of Linguistic Diversity - Livingstone,Fyfe - 1999   19
[87]   Language Evolution: The States of the Art - Christiansen,Kirby - 2003   [ BOOK ]   19
[88]   Coevolution of neocortex size, group size and language in humans - Dunbar - 1993   18
[89]   A computational study of cross-situational techniques for learning word-to-meaning mappings - Siskind - 1996   18
[90]   Nativist and functional explanations in language acquisition - Hurford - 1990   18
[91]   Bootstrapping grounded word semantics - Steels,Kaplan - 2002   18
[92]   Syntax out of Learning: the cultural evolution of structured communication in a population of induction algorithms - Kirby - 1999   18
[93]   Infinite Languages, Finite Minds: Connectionism, Learning and Linguistic Structure - Christiansen - 1994   18
[94]   Language within our grasp - Rizzolatti,Arbib - 1998   17
[95]   A forkhead-domain gene is mutated in a severe speech and language disorder - Lai,Fisher,Hurst,Vargha-Khadem,Monaco - 2001   17
[96]   Language Learnability and Language Development - Pinker - 1984   [ BOOK ]   17
[97]   The origin of speech - Hockett - 1960   17
[98]   Constructing and sharing perceptual distinctions - Steels - 1997   17
[99]   Stochasticity as a source of innovation in language games - Steels,Kaplan - 1998   17
[100]   Distributed representations, simple recurrent networks, and grammatical structure - Elman - 1991   16
[101]   The evolution of language from social intelligence - Worden - 1998   16
[102]   Uniquely Human: The evolution of speech, thought and selfless behavior - Lieberman - 1990   [ BOOK ]   16
[103]   The Evolution of communication schemes over continuous channels - Saunders,Pollack - 1996   16
[104]   Learnability and Cognition: The acquisition of Argument Structure - Pinker - 1989   [ BOOK ]   16
[105]   On language change: The invisible hand in language - Keller - 1994   [ BOOK ]   15
[106]   Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition - Tomasello - 2003   [ BOOK ]   15
[107]   The cultural evolution of communication in a population of neural networks - Smith - 2002   15
[108]   The adaptive advantage of symbolic theft over sensorimotor toil: Grounding language in perceptual categories - Cangelosi,Harnad - 2001   15
[109]   The Lexicon in Acquisition - Clark - 1993   [ BOOK ]   15
[110]   AIBO's first words: The social learning of language and meaning - Steels,Kaplan - 2001   15
[111]   Linguistic Diversity - Nettle - 1999   [ BOOK ]   14
[112]   The Transition to Language - Wray - 2002   [ BOOK ]   14
[113]   Self-organizing processes and the explanation of language universals - Lindblom,MacNeilage,Studdert-Kennedy - 1984   14
[114]   Syntax as an emergent characteristic of the evolution of semantic complexity - Schoenemann - 1999   14
[115]   Establishing Communication Systems without Explicit Meaning Transmission - Smith - 2001   14
[116]   Generating vowel systems in a population of agents - de~Boer - 1997   14
[117]   Language games for autonomous robots - Steels - 2001   14
[118]   The principle of contrast: A constraint on language acquisition - Clark - 1987   13
[119]   The Evolution of Human Languages - Hawkins,Gell-Mann - 1992   [ BOOK ]   13
[120]   The learning guided evolution of natural language - Turkel - 2002   13
[121]   Modeling language competition - Patriarca,Leppanen - 2004   13
[122]   The evolutionary dynamics of the lexical matrix - Komarova,Nowak - 2001   13
[123]   An investigation into the evolution of communication - Di~Paolo - 1998   13
[124]   The evolution of understanding: a genetic algorithm model of the evolution of communication - Levin - 1995   13
[125]   Collective learning and semiotic dynamics - Steels,Kaplan - 1999   13
[126]   Molecular evolution of FOXP2, a gene involved in speech and language - Enard,Przeworski,Fisher,Lai,Wiebe,Kitano,Monaco,Paabo - 2002   13
[127]   Grammatical Acquisition and Linguistic Selection - Briscoe - 2002   13
[128]   Language evolution without natural selection: From vocabulary to syntax in a population of learners - Kirby - 1998   12
[129]   The Survival of the Smallest: Stability Conditions for the Cultural Evolution of Compositional Language - Brighton,Kirby - 2001   12
[130]   Holistic utterances in protolanguage: The link from primates to humans - Wray - 2000   12
[131]   Progress in the simulation of emergent communication and language - Wagner,Reggia,Uriagereka,Wilkinson - 2003   12
[132]   Evolution of communication and language using signals, symbols, and words - Cangelosi - 2001   12
[133]   The Origins of Ontologies and Communication Conventions in Multi-Agent Systems - Steels - 1998   12
[134]   Grounding Symbols through Evolutionary Language Games - Steels - 2002   12
[135]   The Spontaneous Self-organization of an Adaptive Language - Steels - 1999   12
[136]   Modeling the evolution of communication: From stimulus associations to grounded symbolic associations - Cangelosi - 1999   12
[137]   Evolving Grounded Communication for Robots - Steels - 2003   12
[138]   The Seeds of Speech: Language Origin and Evolution - Aitchison - 2000   [ BOOK ]   12
[139]   A Dynamical Systems Model for Language Change - Niyogi,Berwick - 1997   12
[140]   Situated grounded word semantics - Steels,Kaplan - 1999   12
[141]   Constructions: A construction grammar approach to argument structure - Goldberg - 1995   [ BOOK ]   12
[142]   Evolving Communication without Dedicated Communication Channels - Quinn - 2001   11
[143]   Spontaneous Lexicon Change - Steels,Kaplan - 1998   11
[144]   Self-Organisation in Vowel Systems - de~Boer - 1999   11
[145]   Experiments in learning by imitation - grounding and use of communication in robotic agents - Billard,Dautenhahn - 1999   11
[146]   Too many love songs: Sexual selection and the evolution of communication - Werner,Todd - 1997   11
[147]   The Origins of Complex Language: An Inquiry into the Evolutionary Beginnings of Sentences, Syllables, and Truth - Carstairs-McCarthy - 1999   [ BOOK ]   11
[148]   Children creating language: how Nicaraguan sign language acquired a spatial grammar - Senghas,Coppola - 2001   11
[149]   The evolution of speech: a comparative review - Fitch - 2000   11
[150]   The Faculty of Language: What's Special about it? - Pinker,Jackendoff - 2005   11
[151]   Emergence of Language - MacWhinney - 1999   [ BOOK ]   11
[152]   An Exploration of Signalling Behaviour by both Analytic and Simulation Means for both Discrete and Continuous Models - Bullock - 1997   11
[153]   On simulating the evolution of communication - Noble,Cliff - 1996   11
[154]   Altruism, status, and the origin of relevance - Dessalles - 1998   10
[155]   Evolutionary biology of language - Nowak - 2000   10
[156]   An error limit for the evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer,Dress - 1999   10
[157]   Recursive inconsistencies are hard to learn: A connectionist perspective on universal word order correlations - Christiansen,Devlin - 1997   10
[158]   Cooperation, conflict and the evolution of communication - Noble - 1999   10
[159]   Communication in discrete action-response games - Hurd - 1995   10
[160]   Effects of Compression on Language Evolution - Teal,Taylor - 2000   10
[161]   Intelligent Meaning Creation in A Clumpy World Helps Communication - Smith - 2003   10
[162]   Constructivist Development of Grounded Construction Grammars - Steels - 2004   10
[163]   Evolved Signals: Expensive Hype vs. Conspirational Whispers - Noble - 1998   10
[164]   Self-organization in vowel systems - de~Boer - 2000   10
[165]   Language evolution and the minimalist program: The origins of syntax - Berwick - 1998   9
[166]   From robotic toil to symbolic theft: Grounding transfer from entry-level to higher-level categories - Cangelosi,Greco,Harnad - 2000   9
[167]   The Emergence of Propositions from the Co-ordination of Talk and Action in a Shared World - Hazlehurst,Hutchins - 1998   9
[168]   Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language - Pinker - 1999   [ BOOK ]   9
[169]   Language as a Complex Adaptive System: Coevolution of Language and of the Language Acquisition Device - Briscoe - 1998   9
[170]   Evolution of Linguistic Diversity in a Simple Communication System - Arita,Koyama - 1998   9
[171]   Brain evolution and neurolinguistic preconditions - Wilkins,Wakefield - 1995   9
[172]   From monkey-like action recognition to human language: An evolutionary framework for neurolinguistics - Arbib - 2005   9
[173]   Language, tools, and brain: The ontogeny and phylogeny of hierarchically organized sequential behavior - Greenfield - 1991   9
[174]   The Evolution of Language and Languages - Hurford - 1999   9
[175]   Toward a connectionist model of recursion in human linguistic performance - Christiansen,Chater - 1999   9
[176]   Lexicon Grounding on Mobile Robots - Vogt - 2000   9
[177]   Spatially Distributed Naming Games - Steels,McIntyre - 1999   8
[178]   Language-tree divergence times support the Anatolian theory of Indo-European origin - Gray,Atkinson - 2003   8
[179]   Small Signaling Systems can Evolve in the Absence of Benefit to the Information Sender - Batali - 1995   8
[180]   The evolution of vocabulary - Smith - 2004   8
[181]   Autonomous Formation of Concepts and Communication - de~Jong - 2000   8
[182]   Knowledge and Learning in Natural Language - Yang - 2003   [ BOOK ]   8
[183]   Learning in the Cultural Process - Hutchins,Hazlehurst - 1992   8
[184]   Constrained Emergence of Universals and Variation in Syllable Systems - Redford,Chen,Miikkulainen - 2001   8
[185]   Using Social Impact Theory to simulate language change - Nettle - 1999   8
[186]   An Artificial Life Approach to Language - Parisi - 1997   8
[187]   Social coordination and spatial organization: Steps towards the evolution of communication - Di~Paolo - 1997   8
[188]   Investigating social interaction strategies for bootstrapping lexicon development - Vogt,Coumans - 2003   8
[189]   Evolutionary Perspectives on Diachronic Syntax - Briscoe - 2000   8
[190]   The Ecology of Language Evolution - Mufwene - 2001   [ BOOK ]   8
[191]   Systemic constraints and adaptive change in the formation of sound structure - Lindblom - 1998   8
[192]   Theory of mind and the evolution of language - Dunbar - 1998   8
[193]   The Transmission of Language: models of biological and cultural evolution - Smith - 2003   8
[194]   Interlinguistic similarity and language death dynamics - Mira,Paredes - 2005   8
[195]   Emergence of speech sounds in changing populations - de~Boer,Vogt - 1999   8

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