| 2002 | - | Grammatical Acquisition and Linguistic Selection - Briscoe | :: | 19 |
| 2002 | - | Expression/induction models of language evolution: dimensions and issues - Hurford | :: | 27 |
| 2002 | - | Learning, Bottlenecks and the Evolution of Recursive Syntax - Kirby | :: | 71 |
| 2000 | - | Theories of Cultural Change and their Application to Language Evolution - Niyogi | :: | 3 |
| 2000 | - | Grammatical Acquisition: Inductive Bias and Coevolution of Language and the Language Acquisition Device - Briscoe | :: | 28 |
| 1999 | - | The development of language: Acquisition, change and evolution - Lightfoot | :: | 38 |
| 1999 | - | The Acquisition of Grammar in an Evolving Population of Language Agents - Briscoe | :: | 10 |
| 1999 | - | Function, Selection and Innateness: the Emergence of Language Universals - Kirby | :: | 62 |
| 1999 | - | The Evolution of Language and Languages - Hurford | :: | 9 |
| 1999 | - | Charting the learning path: cues to parameter setting - Dresher | :: | 3 |
| 1999 | - | Lexical rules in constraint-based grammar - Briscoe,Copestake | :: | 2 |
| 1998 | - | Catastrophic evolution: The case for a single step from protolanguage to full human language - Bickerton | :: | 21 |
| 1998 | - | Language as a Complex Adaptive System: Coevolution of Language and of the Language Acquisition Device - Briscoe | :: | 14 |
| 1998 | - | Systemic constraints and adaptive change in the formation of sound structure - Lindblom | :: | 8 |
| 1998 | - | Computational simulations of the emergence of grammar - Batali | :: | 90 |
| 1998 | - | Synthesising the Origins of Language and Meaning Using Co-evolution, Self-organisation and Level formation - Steels | :: | 45 |
| 1998 | - | Evolutionary Genetics - Maynard-Smith | :: | 4 |
| 1998 | - | Fitness and the selective adaptation of language - Kirby | :: | 31 |
| 1998 | - | Unambiguous Triggers - Fodor | :: | 6 |
| 1998 | - | Linguistic complexity: locality of syntactic dependencies - Gibson | :: | 4 |
| 1998 | - | The role of diffusion in the genesis of Hawaiian creole - Roberts | :: | 4 |
| 1998 | - | Language evolution and the minimalist program: The origins of syntax - Berwick | :: | 9 |
| 1997 | - | A dynamical systems model of language change - Niyogi,Berwick | :: | 1 |
| 1997 | - | Competing motivations and emergence: explaining implicational hierarchies - Kirby | :: | 11 |
| 1997 | - | Co-evolution of Language and of the Language Acquisition Device - Briscoe | :: | 9 |
| 1997 | - | The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain - Deacon | :: | 116 |
| 1997 | - | Learning, culture and evolution in the origin of linguistic constraints - Kirby,Hurford | :: | 47 |
| 1996 | - | The Informational Complexity of Learning from Examples - Niyogi | :: | 7 |
| 1996 | - | Are humans good intuitive statisticians after all? Rethinking some conclusions from the literature on judgement under uncertainty - Cosmides,Tooby | :: | 6 |
| 1996 | - | A Language Learning Model for Finite Parameter Spaces - Niyogi,Berwick | :: | 22 |
| 1996 | - | On the use of triggers in parameter setting - Frank,Kipur | :: | 3 |
| 1996 | - | The shift to head-initial VP in Germanic - Kiparsky | :: | 2 |
| 1996 | - | Data Analysis: A Bayesian Tutorial - Sivia | :: | 1 |
| 1996 | - | Internal and External Factors Affecting language Change: A Computational Model - Clark | :: | 7 |
| 1996 | - | Learning from positive data - Muggleton | :: | 4 |
| 1996 | - | Landscapes, learning costs and genetic assimilation - Mayley | :: | 6 |
| 1995 | - | Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, Simon and Schuster - Dennett | :: | 3 |
| 1995 | - | Without Miracles: Universal Selection Theory and the Second Darwinian Revolution - Cziko | :: | 7 |
| 1995 | - | Probability - McColl | :: | 3 |
| 1995 | - | Measuring syntactic complexity - Hudson | :: | 1 |
| 1994 | - | Understanding Language Change - McMahon | :: | 11 |
| 1994 | - | A Performance Theory of Order and Constituency - Hawkins | :: | 20 |
| 1994 | - | Chaos Under Control: The Art and Science of Complexity - Peak,Frame | :: | 2 |
| 1994 | - | A processing model of free word order languages - Rambow,Joshi | :: | 4 |
| 1994 | - | On language change: The invisible hand in language - Keller | :: | 15 |
| 1993 | - | Games of Life: Explorations in Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour - Sigmund | :: | 2 |
| 1993 | - | Categorial Grammars - Wood | :: | 4 |
| 1993 | - | The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution - Kauffman | :: | 12 |
| 1992 | - | The selection of syntactic knowledge - Clark | :: | 11 |
| 1991 | - | How to Set Parameters: Arguments from Language Change - Lightfoot | :: | 31 |
| 1991 | - | Preadaptation, natural selection and function - Lieberman | :: | 2 |
| 1990 | - | Reply to Pinker and Bloom - Ridley | :: | 4 |
| 1990 | - | Grammaticalization - Hopper,Traugott | :: | 9 |
| 1990 | - | Typology and Universals - Croft | :: | 20 |
| 1990 | - | Natural language and natural selection - Pinker,Bloom | :: | 137 |
| 1989 | - | Learnability and Cognition: The acquisition of Argument Structure - Pinker | :: | 17 |
| 1989 | - | Reflexes of grammar in patterns of language change - Kroch | :: | 25 |
| 1989 | - | The Selfish Gene - Dawkins | :: | 43 |
| 1988 | - | Learning as inference - Staddon | :: | 5 |
| 1988 | - | Creole languages and the bioprogram - Bickerton | :: | 4 |
| 1987 | - | Parameters and learnability in binding theory - Wexler,Manzini | :: | 5 |
| 1987 | - | Language and Number: the emergence of a cognitive system - Hurford | :: | 23 |
| 1986 | - | Language Acquisition and the Theory of Parameters - Hyams | :: | 8 |
| 1984 | - | The Language Bioprogram Hypothesis - Bickerton | :: | 28 |
| 1983 | - | Universal Darwinism - Dawkins | :: | 5 |
| 1982 | - | A myth about center-embedding - De Roeck,Johnson,King,Rosner,Sampson | :: | 1 |
| 1981 | - | Roots of language - Bickerton | :: | 27 |
| 1981 | - | Government and Binding - Chomsky | :: | 12 |
| 1981 | - | An Introduction to Montague Semantics - Dowty,Wall,Peters | :: | 1 |
| 1981 | - | Does performance shape competence? - Fodor | :: | 1 |
| 1980 | - | Formal Principles of Language Acquisition - Wexler,Culicover | :: | 29 |
| 1979 | - | Principles of Diachronic Syntax - Lightfoot | :: | 4 |
| 1977 | - | Motherese: the speech of mothers to young children - Newport | :: | 2 |
| 1977 | - | Syntactic reanalysis - Langacker | :: | 4 |
| 1975 | - | The Evolution of an Evolutionist - Waddington | :: | 7 |
| 1967 | - | Language identification in the limit - Gold | :: | 50 |
| 1965 | - | Aspects of the Theory of Syntax - Chomsky | :: | 72 |
| 1963 | - | Finitary models of language users - Miller,Chomsky | :: | 11 |
| 1942 | - | Canalization of development and the inheritance of acquired characters - Waddington | :: | 8 |
| 1931 | - | Evolution in Mendelian populations - Wright | :: | 4 |
| 1921 | - | Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech - Sapir | :: | 3 |
| 1896 | - | A new factor in evolution - Baldwin | :: | 29 |