| 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 |
| 2001 | - | Evolution of universal grammar - Nowak,Komarova,Niyogi | :: | 71 |
| 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 |
| 2000 | - | The evolution of syntactic communication - Nowak,Plotkin,Jansen | :: | 69 |
| 2002 | - | The Faculty of Language: What Is It, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve? - Hauser,Chomsky,Fitch | :: | 52 |
| 2002 | - | Natural Language from Artificial Life - Kirby | :: | 50 |
| 2002 | - | Compositional Syntax from Cultural Transmission - Brighton | :: | 46 |
| 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 |
| 1999 | - | The learning barrier: Moving from innate to learned systems of communication - Oliphant | :: | 38 |
| 1995 | - | A self-organizing spatial vocabulary - Steels | :: | 31 |
| 2002 | - | Computational and evolutionary aspects of language - Nowak,Komarova,Niyogi | :: | 31 |
| 1998 | - | Fitness and the selective adaptation of language - Kirby | :: | 31 |
| 2001 | - | The evolutionary dynamics of grammar acquisition - Komarova,Niyogi,Nowak | :: | 28 |
| 2000 | - | Grammatical Acquisition: Inductive Bias and Coevolution of Language and the Language Acquisition Device - Briscoe | :: | 28 |
| 2003 | - | Iterated Learning: a framework for the emergence of language - Smith,Kirby,Brighton | :: | 26 |
| 2001 | - | Towards an evolutionary theory of language - Nowak,Komarova | :: | 23 |
| 1994 | - | Infinite Languages, Finite Minds: Connectionism, Learning and Linguistic Structure - Christiansen | :: | 22 |
| 1998 | - | Language within our grasp - Rizzolatti,Arbib | :: | 22 |
| 1999 | - | Possible stages in the evolution of the language capacity - Jackendoff | :: | 21 |
| 2001 | - | The Survival of the Smallest: Stability Conditions for the Cultural Evolution of Compositional Language - Brighton,Kirby | :: | 20 |
| 1999 | - | Syntax out of Learning: the cultural evolution of structured communication in a population of induction algorithms - Kirby | :: | 20 |
| 2002 | - | Grammatical Acquisition and Linguistic Selection - Briscoe | :: | 19 |
| 2003 | - | Intelligent Meaning Creation in A Clumpy World Helps Communication - Smith | :: | 18 |
| 2003 | - | Least effort and the origins of scaling in human language - Ferrer-i-Cancho,Sole | :: | 17 |
| 1999 | - | An error limit for the evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer,Dress | :: | 17 |
| 1999 | - | Self-Organisation in Vowel Systems - de Boer | :: | 15 |
| 1999 | - | Syntax as an emergent characteristic of the evolution of semantic complexity - Schoenemann | :: | 15 |
| 1998 | - | Language as a Complex Adaptive System: Coevolution of Language and of the Language Acquisition Device - Briscoe | :: | 14 |
| 2000 | - | Evolutionary Perspectives on Diachronic Syntax - Briscoe | :: | 14 |
| 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 | - | Complex Systems in Language Evolution: the cultural emergence of compositional structure - Smith,Brighton,Kirby | :: | 13 |
| 2005 | - | Coordinating Perceptually Grounded Categories through Language: A Case Study for Colour - Steels,Belpaeme | :: | 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 |
| 2003 | - | How the poverty of the stimulus solves the poverty of the stimulus - Zuidema | :: | 10 |
| 2002 | - | Natural selection and cultural selection in the evolution of communication - Smith | :: | 10 |
| 2000 | - | Evolutionary biology of language - Nowak | :: | 10 |
| 1999 | - | The Acquisition of Grammar in an Evolving Population of Language Agents - Briscoe | :: | 10 |
| 2000 | - | The basic reproductive ratio of a word, the maximum size of a lexicon - Nowak | :: | 9 |
| 2001 | - | Simulating the Formation of Color Categories - Belpaeme | :: | 9 |
| 2004 | - | The evolution of vocabulary - Smith | :: | 9 |
| 2001 | - | The Difficulty of the Baldwinian Account of Linguistic Innateness - Yamauchi | :: | 8 |
| 2001 | - | Natural selection of the critical period for language acquisition - Komarova,Nowak | :: | 8 |
| 2003 | - | Language Evolution: Consensus and Controversies - Christiansen,Kirby | :: | 8 |
| 2003 | - | Grammatical Assimilation - Briscoe | :: | 8 |
| 2001 | - | The Importance of Rapid Cultural Convergence in the Evolution of Learned Symbolic Communication - Smith | :: | 8 |
| 2000 | - | Error, Population Structure and the Origin of Diverse Sign Systems - Grassly,von Haeseler,Krakauer | :: | 8 |
| 2001 | - | Constrained Emergence of Universals and Variation in Syllable Systems - Redford,Chen,Miikkulainen | :: | 8 |
| 2005 | - | The emergence of compositional structures in perceptually grounded language games - Vogt | :: | 8 |
| 2000 | - | Nash equilibria for an evolutionary language game - Trapa,Nowak | :: | 8 |
| 2001 | - | Emergent syntax: the unremitting value of computational modeling for understanding the origins of complex language - Zuidema | :: | 7 |
| 2003 | - | Simplicity as a Driving Force in Linguistic Evolution - Brighton | :: | 7 |
| 2002 | - | Phonemic coding might be a result of sensory-motor coupling dynamics - Oudeyer | :: | 7 |
| 2001 | - | The Origins of Syllable Systems: An Operational Model - Oudeyer | :: | 7 |
| 2003 | - | Language dynamics in finite populations - Komarova,Nowak | :: | 7 |
| 2004 | - | Children Creating Core Properties of Language: Evidence from an Emerging Sign Language in Nicaragua - Senghas,Kita,Ozyurek | :: | 7 |
| 2002 | - | The role of sequential learning in language evolution: Computational and experimental studies - Christiansen,Dale,Ellefson,Conway | :: | 6 |
| 2003 | - | Situated cognition and the role of multi-agent models in explaining language structure - Brighton,Kirby,Smith | :: | 6 |
| 2001 | - | Cost and conflict in animal signals and human language - Lachmann,Szamado,Bergstrom | :: | 6 |
| 2000 | - | Selective advantages of syntactic language - a model study - Zuidema,Hogeweg | :: | 6 |
| 2002 | - | Learning and the evolution of language: The role of cultural variation and learning costs in the Baldwin Effect - Munroe,Cangelosi | :: | 6 |
| 1996 | - | Function, Selection and Innateness: the Emergence of Language Universals - Kirby | :: | 5 |
| 2005 | - | The evolution of the language faculty: Clarifications and implications - Fitch,Hauser,Chomsky | :: | 5 |
| 2001 | - | On the Origins of Linguistic Structure: Computational models of the evolution of language - Tonkes | :: | 5 |
| 1999 | - | Learning, Bottlenecks and Infinity: a working model of the evolution of syntactic communication - Kirby | :: | 5 |
| 2003 | - | Competitive Exclusion and Coexistence of Universal Grammars - Mitchener,Nowak | :: | 5 |
| 2005 | - | Cultural Selection for Learnability: Three principles underlying the view that language adapts to be learnable - Brighton,Kirby,Smith | :: | 5 |
| 2002 | - | The Roles of Expression and Representation in Language Evolution - Hurford | :: | 4 |
| 2000 | - | Evolution of syntax in groups of agents - Zuidema | :: | 4 |
| 1999 | - | Functional Innateness: explaining the critical period for language acquisition - Hurford | :: | 4 |
| 2006 | - | On the emergence of compositionality - De Beule,Bergen | :: | 4 |
| 2000 | - | The Emergence of Syntax - Hurford | :: | 4 |
| 2005 | - | On the acquisition and evolution of compositional languages: Sparse input and the productive creativity of children - Vogt | :: | 4 |
| 1999 | - | Investigating the Emergence of Speech Sounds - de Boer | :: | 3 |
| 2003 | - | Evolving Communication through the Inference of Meaning - Smith | :: | 3 |
| 2001 | - | Meaning Space Structure Determines the Stability of Culturally Evolved Compositional Language - Brighton,Kirby | :: | 3 |
| 2002 | - | An Introduction to Methods for Simulating the Evolution of Language - Turner | :: | 3 |
| 2006 | - | Language evolution and robotics: Issues in symbol grounding and language acquisition - Vogt | :: | 3 |
| 2003 | - | Linguistic differences and language design - Baker | :: | 3 |
| 1999 | - | An Emergence of Coordinated Communication in Populations of Agents - Kvasnicka,Pospichal | :: | 2 |
| 2000 | - | Survival of the Clearest - Pinker | :: | 2 |
| 2001 | - | Selective imitation for a private sign system - Krakauer | :: | 2 |
| 2006 | - | Language and life history: A new perspective on the development and evolution of human language - Locke,Bogin | :: | 2 |
| 2002 | - | Toward Automated Evolution of Agent Communication Languages - Gmytrasiewicz,Summers,Gopal | :: | 2 |
| 2001 | - | Major Transitions in Language Evolution - Plotkin,Nowak | :: | 2 |
| 2001 | - | Origins and Learnability of Syllable Systems: a Cultural Evolutionary Model - Oudeyer | :: | 2 |
| 2005 | - | Language as an evolutionary system - Brighton,Smith,Kirby | :: | 2 |
| 2002 | - | Simulated Evolution of Language: a Review of the Field - Perfors | :: | 2 |
| 2005 | - | How Phonological Structures Can Be Culturally Selected for Learnability - Oudeyer | :: | 2 |
| 2004 | - | Review of ``Linguistic evolution through language acquisition: Formal and computational models'' by Ted Briscoe, 2002 - Edelman,Pedersen | :: | 1 |
| 2006 | - | The Baldwin effect works for functional, but not arbitrary, features of language - Christiansen,Reali,Chater | :: | 1 |
| 2001 | - | From Cultural Selection to Genetic Selection: A Framework for the Evolution of Language - Dor,Jablonka | :: | 1 |
| 2005 | - | Linguistic Evolution and Induction by Minimum Description Length - Brighton | :: | 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 |
| 2000 | - | Mirror Neurons and the Action Theory of Language Origins - Steels | :: | 1 |
| 2007 | - | Innateness and culture in the evolution of language - Kirby,Dowman,Griffiths | :: | 1 |
| 2004 | - | Baldwinian Accounts of Language Evolution - Yamauchi | :: | 1 |
| 2006 | - | Why Human Languages Mark Perspective - Steels,Loetzsch,Bergen | :: | 1 |
| 2000 | - | Simulated Evolution of Communication: The Emergence of Meaning - Perfors | :: | 1 |
| 2003 | - | Semantic Generalisation and the Inference of Meaning - Smith | :: | 1 |
| 2002 | - | Modeling Syntactic Devices: An Exploration of Language Evolution from Connectionist and Memetic Perspectives - Lupyan | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Population dynamics of human language: a complex system - Komarova | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Discovering Communication - Oudeyer,Kaplan | :: | |
| 2001 | - | The Peacock, the Sparrow, and the Evolution of Human Language - Bergstrom,Antia,Számadó,Lachmann | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Why talk? Speaking as selfish behaviour - Scott-Phillips | :: | |
| 2005 | - | Grammar Structure and the Dynamics of Language Evolution - Lee,Collier,Kobele,Stabler,Taylor | :: | |
| 2002 | - | From quasispecies to universal grammar - Nowak | :: | |
| 2003 | - | Universality in syntactic dependencies - Ferrer-i-Cancho,Sole,Kohler | :: | |
| 2004 | - | Self-organization and Language Evolution: System, Population and Individual - Ke | :: | |
| 2007 | - | Game Dynamics with Learning and Evolution of Universal Grammar - Mitchener | :: | |
| 2002 | - | Negotiation as a Mechanism for Language Evolution - Gmytrasiewicz | :: | |
| 2002 | - | The View From Elsewhere: Perspectives on ALife Modeling - Wheeler,Bullock,Paolo,Noble,Bedau,Husbands,Kirby,Seth | :: | |
| 2005 | - | Exploring the Adaptive Structure of the Mental Lexicon - Tamariz | :: | |
| 2000 | - | Review of three book-length studies of language evolution - Newmeyer | :: | |
| 2005 | - | Editorial: Language Acquisition and Evolution - Vogt | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Language and Morality: Evolution, Altruism and Linguistic Moral Mechanisms - Poulshock | :: | |
| 2007 | - | The emergence of simple languages in an experimental coordination game - Selten,Warglien | :: | |
| 2006 | - | The implications of bilingualism and multilingualism on potential evolved language mechanisms - Sternberg,Christiansen | :: | |
| 2005 | - | Conceptual complexity and the brain: understanding language origins - Schoenemann | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Evolving the narrow language faculty: was recursion the pivotal step? - Parker | :: | |
| 2006 | - | Selective scenarios for the emergence of natural language - Szamado,Szathmary | :: | |
| 2003 | - | Computer Models of the Evolution of Language and Languages - Livingstone | :: | |
| 2005 | - | The Evolution of Language: A Comparative Review - Fitch | :: | |
| 2005 | - | Why talk: an Adaptationist Approach - Scott-Phillips | :: | |
| 2007 | - | Language as Shaped by the Brain - Christiansen,Chater | :: | |
| 2002 | - | Evolution and Learning of Language: Insights Drawn from Modeling - McLennan | :: | |
| 2007 | - | The Role of Anticipation in the Emergence of Language - Swarup,Gasser | :: | |
| 2001 | - | Sciences of complexity and language origins: an alternative to natural selection - Longa | :: | |
| 1999 | - | Social patterns restrict evolving patterns - Zuidema | :: | |
| 2005 | - | Language Networks: their structure, function and evolution - Sole,Corominas,Valverde,Steels | :: | |