| 1997 | - | The synthetic modeling of language origins - Steels | :: | 107 |
| 2001 | - | Spontaneous evolution of linguistic structure: an iterated learning model of the emergence of regularity and irregularity - Kirby | :: | 77 |
| 1999 | - | The evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer | :: | 74 |
| 2002 | - | Learning, Bottlenecks and the Evolution of Recursive Syntax - Kirby | :: | 71 |
| 2000 | - | Syntax without Natural Selection: How compositionality emerges from vocabulary in a population of learners - Kirby | :: | 69 |
| 1997 | - | Learning and the emergence of coordinated communication - Oliphant,Batali | :: | 52 |
| 1998 | - | Synthesising the Origins of Language and Meaning Using Co-evolution, Self-organisation and Level formation - Steels | :: | 45 |
| 2002 | - | The Emergence of Linguistic Structure: An overview of the Iterated Learning Model - Kirby,Hurford | :: | 43 |
| 1999 | - | The evolutionary language game - Nowak,Plotkin,Krakauer | :: | 41 |
| 2002 | - | Computational and evolutionary aspects of language - Nowak,Komarova,Niyogi | :: | 31 |
| 2001 | - | The evolutionary dynamics of grammar acquisition - Komarova,Niyogi,Nowak | :: | 28 |
| 1997 | - | Evolutionary Consequences of Language Learning - Niyogi,Berwick | :: | 26 |
| 2001 | - | Towards an evolutionary theory of language - Nowak,Komarova | :: | 23 |
| 1999 | - | Possible stages in the evolution of the language capacity - Jackendoff | :: | 21 |
| 2002 | - | Grammatical Acquisition and Linguistic Selection - Briscoe | :: | 19 |
| 2003 | - | Least effort and the origins of scaling in human language - Ferrer-i-Cancho,Sole | :: | 17 |
| 1998 | - | Language evolution without natural selection: From vocabulary to syntax in a population of learners - Kirby | :: | 14 |
| 2003 | - | The Transmission of Language: models of biological and cultural evolution - Smith | :: | 13 |
| 2003 | - | Progress in the simulation of emergent communication and language - Wagner,Reggia,Uriagereka,Wilkinson | :: | 12 |
| 2005 | - | The Faculty of Language: What's Special about it? - Pinker,Jackendoff | :: | 11 |
| 2000 | - | Evolutionary biology of language - Nowak | :: | 10 |
| 1999 | - | The Acquisition of Grammar in an Evolving Population of Language Agents - Briscoe | :: | 10 |
| 1999 | - | The Evolution of Language and Languages - Hurford | :: | 9 |
| 2004 | - | Patterns in syntactic dependency networks - Ferrer-i-Cancho,Sole | :: | 8 |
| 2000 | - | Nash equilibria for an evolutionary language game - Trapa,Nowak | :: | 8 |
| 2005 | - | The emergence and evolution of linguistic structure: from lexical to grammatical communication systems - Steels | :: | 7 |
| 2003 | - | Language dynamics in finite populations - Komarova,Nowak | :: | 7 |
| 1996 | - | Function, Selection and Innateness: the Emergence of Language Universals - Kirby | :: | 5 |
| 2003 | - | Competitive Exclusion and Coexistence of Universal Grammars - Mitchener,Nowak | :: | 5 |
| 2001 | - | On the Origins of Linguistic Structure: Computational models of the evolution of language - Tonkes | :: | 5 |
| 2005 | - | Decoding least effort and scaling in signal frequency distributions - Ferrer-i-Cancho | :: | 5 |
| 2001 | - | Protothought had no logical names - Hurford | :: | 4 |
| 2002 | - | The Roles of Expression and Representation in Language Evolution - Hurford | :: | 4 |
| 2005 | - | On the acquisition and evolution of compositional languages: Sparse input and the productive creativity of children - Vogt | :: | 4 |
| 2002 | - | On the nature and evolution of the neural bases of human language - Lieberman | :: | 4 |
| 2003 | - | Evolving Communication through the Inference of Meaning - Smith | :: | 3 |
| 1998 | - | Models of the Emergence of Language - MacWhinney | :: | 3 |
| 2002 | - | An Introduction to Methods for Simulating the Evolution of Language - Turner | :: | 3 |
| 2003 | - | Linguistic differences and language design - Baker | :: | 3 |
| 2005 | - | Syntax for free? - Sole | :: | 2 |
| 2006 | - | Language and life history: A new perspective on the development and evolution of human language - Locke,Bogin | :: | 2 |
| 2002 | - | Simulated Evolution of Language: a Review of the Field - Perfors | :: | 2 |
| 2003 | - | Optimal communication in a noisy and heterogeneous environment - Zuidema | :: | 2 |
| 2001 | - | Major Transitions in Language Evolution - Plotkin,Nowak | :: | 2 |
| 2000 | - | Simulated Evolution of Communication: The Emergence of Meaning - Perfors | :: | 1 |
| 2004 | - | The immune syntax: the evolution of the language virus - Piatelli-Palmarini,Uriagereka | :: | 1 |
| 2001 | - | From Cultural Selection to Genetic Selection: A Framework for the Evolution of Language - Dor,Jablonka | :: | 1 |
| 2002 | - | An Agent-Based Evolutionary Computing Approach to Memory-Based Syntactic Parsing of Natural Language - Pauw | :: | 1 |
| 2003 | - | A Mathematical Model of Human Languages: The Interaction of Game Dynamics and Learning Processes - Mitchener | :: | 1 |
| 2005 | - | The Major Transitions in the Evolution of Language - Zuidema | :: | 1 |
| 2004 | - | Baldwinian Accounts of Language Evolution - Yamauchi | :: | 1 |
| 2004 | - | Cooperation and the Evolution of Symbolic Communication - Gardenfors | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Population dynamics of human language: a complex system - Komarova | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Evolutionary games and semantic universals - van Rooij | :: | |
| 1997 | - | Biolinguistics - Structure, development and evolution of language - Jenkins | :: | |
| 2005 | - | Iterated Learning: The Exemplar-based Learning Approach - Eddy | :: | |
| 2003 | - | Creole Viewed from Population Dynamics - Nakamura,Hashimoto,Tojo | :: | |
| 2001 | - | The Peacock, the Sparrow, and the Evolution of Human Language - Bergstrom,Antia,Számadó,Lachmann | :: | |
| 1999 | - | Experiments in language acquisition by artificial systems - Sabah,Popescu-Belis | :: | |
| 2005 | - | The Evolution of Language: A Comparative Review - Fitch | :: | |
| 2005 | - | Polygenesis of Linguistic Strategies: A Scenario for the Emergence of Languages - Coupe,Hombert | :: | |
| 2003 | - | Universality in syntactic dependencies - Ferrer-i-Cancho,Sole,Kohler | :: | |
| 2004 | - | Self-organization and Language Evolution: System, Population and Individual - Ke | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Early human language was isolating-monocategorial-associational - Gil | :: | |
| 2005 | - | Design and Performance of Pre-Grammatical Language Games - Van Looveren | :: | |
| 2005 | - | The origins of syntax: from navigation to language - Bartlett,Kazakov | :: | |
| 2000 | - | Review of three book-length studies of language evolution - Newmeyer | :: | |
| 2006 | - | The protolanguage debate: bridging the gap? - Smith | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Talking to oneself as a selective pressure for the emergence of language - Mirolli,Parisi | :: | |
| 2001 | - | Sciences of complexity and language origins: an alternative to natural selection - Longa | :: | |
| 2007 | - | The Role of Anticipation in the Emergence of Language - Swarup,Gasser | :: | |
| 2007 | - | The emergence of simple languages in an experimental coordination game - Selten,Warglien | :: | |
| 1995 | - | Language and the Evolution of Cognition - Gardenfors | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Scaling laws in language evolution - Sole | :: | |