| 2003 | - | The Transmission of Language: models of biological and cultural evolution - Smith | :: | 13 |
| 2005 | - | From monkey-like action recognition to human language: An evolutionary framework for neurolinguistics - Arbib | :: | 11 |
| 2005 | - | The Faculty of Language: What's Special about it? - Pinker,Jackendoff | :: | 11 |
| 2004 | - | Patterns in syntactic dependency networks - Ferrer-i-Cancho,Sole | :: | 8 |
| 2003 | - | Language Evolution: Consensus and Controversies - Christiansen,Kirby | :: | 8 |
| 2004 | - | Children Creating Core Properties of Language: Evidence from an Emerging Sign Language in Nicaragua - Senghas,Kita,Ozyurek | :: | 7 |
| 2003 | - | Constructions: a new theoretical approach to language - Goldberg | :: | 7 |
| 2003 | - | Simplicity as a Driving Force in Linguistic Evolution - Brighton | :: | 7 |
| 2005 | - | The consequences of Zipf's law for syntax and symbolic reference - Ferrer-i-Cancho,Riordan,Bollobas | :: | 6 |
| 2005 | - | The evolution of the language faculty: Clarifications and implications - Fitch,Hauser,Chomsky | :: | 5 |
| 2004 | - | Song Grammars as Complex Sexual Displays - Sasahara,Ikegami | :: | 3 |
| 2006 | - | Language and life history: A new perspective on the development and evolution of human language - Locke,Bogin | :: | 2 |
| 2004 | - | The Euclidean distance between syntactically linked words - Ferrer-i-Cancho | :: | 2 |
| 2003 | - | Coevolution of Birdsong Grammar without Imitation - Sasahara,Ikegami | :: | 2 |
| 2005 | - | Acquisition and evolution of quasi-regular languages: two puzzles for the price of one - Roberts,Onnis,Chater | :: | 1 |
| 2007 | - | Iterated learning: Intergenerational knowledge transmission reveals inductive biases - Kalish,Griffiths,Lewandowsky | :: | 1 |
| 2006 | - | Why Human Languages Mark Perspective - Steels,Loetzsch,Bergen | :: | 1 |
| 2007 | - | Quantifying the evolutionary dynamics of language - Lieberman,Michel,Jackson,Tang,Nowak | :: | 1 |
| 2003 | - | A Mathematical Model of Human Languages: The Interaction of Game Dynamics and Learning Processes - Mitchener | :: | 1 |
| 2004 | - | The immune syntax: the evolution of the language virus - Piatelli-Palmarini,Uriagereka | :: | 1 |
| 2003 | - | Modeling Language Acquisition, Change and Variation - Zuidema | :: | 1 |
| 2006 | - | Network topology and self-consistency in language games - Corominas,Sole | :: | 1 |
| 2005 | - | The Major Transitions in the Evolution of Language - Zuidema | :: | 1 |
| 2007 | - | Innateness and culture in the evolution of language - Kirby,Dowman,Griffiths | :: | 1 |
| 2005 | - | Conceptual complexity and the brain: understanding language origins - Schoenemann | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Evolving the narrow language faculty: was recursion the pivotal step? - Parker | :: | |
| 2005 | - | The origins of syntax: from navigation to language - Bartlett,Kazakov | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Startling starlings - Marcus | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Selective scenarios for the emergence of natural language - Szamado,Szathmary | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Working backwards from modern language to proto-grammar - Johansson | :: | |
| 2005 | - | Iterated Learning: The Exemplar-based Learning Approach - Eddy | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Language and Morality: Evolution, Altruism and Linguistic Moral Mechanisms - Poulshock | :: | |
| 2007 | - | The consequences of talking to strangers: Evolutionary corollaries of socio-cultural influences on linguistic form - Wray,Grace | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Evolving Distributed Representations for Language with Self-Organizing Maps - Levy,Kirby | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Recursive syntactic pattern learning by songbirds - Gentner,Fenn,Margoliash,Nusbaum | :: | |
| 2004 | - | Human uniqueness, learned symbols and recursive thought - Hurford | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Minimalist foundations of language evolution: on the question of why language is the way it is - Hinzen | :: | |
| 2007 | - | The Role of Anticipation in the Emergence of Language - Swarup,Gasser | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Why talk? Speaking as selfish behaviour - Scott-Phillips | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Multi-Agent Simulation of Emergence of Schwa Deletion Pattern in Hindi - Choudhury,Basu,Sarkar | :: | |
| 2005 | - | Grammar Structure and the Dynamics of Language Evolution - Lee,Collier,Kobele,Stabler,Taylor | :: | |
| 2005 | - | The Evolution of Language: A Comparative Review - Fitch | :: | |
| 2007 | - | The emergence of simple languages in an experimental coordination game - Selten,Warglien | :: | |
| 2003 | - | Universality in syntactic dependencies - Ferrer-i-Cancho,Sole,Kohler | :: | |
| 2005 | - | Why talk: an Adaptationist Approach - Scott-Phillips | :: | |
| 2006 | - | The evolution of language as a precursor to the evolution of morality - Poulshock | :: | |
| 2004 | - | Self-organization and Language Evolution: System, Population and Individual - Ke | :: | |
| 2007 | - | Language as Shaped by the Brain - Christiansen,Chater | :: | |
| 2005 | - | Language Networks: their structure, function and evolution - Sole,Corominas,Valverde,Steels | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Semantic combinations in primate calls - Arnold,Zuberbuhler | :: | |
| 2005 | - | Using mathematical models of language experimentally - O'Donnell,Hauser,Fitch | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Scaling laws in language evolution - Sole | :: | |