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| 1997 | - | The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain - Deacon | :: | 116 |
| 1994 | - | The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language - Pinker | :: | 96 |
| 1989 | - | Biological evolution of the Saussurean sign as a component of the language acquisition device - Hurford | :: | 88 |
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| 1993 | - | Learning and development in neural networks: The importance of starting small - Elman | :: | 30 |
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| 1984 | - | The Language Bioprogram Hypothesis - Bickerton | :: | 28 |
| 1991 | - | The Evolution of the Critical Period for Language Acquisition - Hurford | :: | 28 |
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| 1997 | - | Evolutionary Consequences of Language Learning - Niyogi,Berwick | :: | 26 |
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| 1993 | - | A Computational Model of Language Learnability and Language Change - Clark,Roberts | :: | 24 |
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| 1996 | - | A Language Learning Model for Finite Parameter Spaces - Niyogi,Berwick | :: | 22 |
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| 1994 | - | A Performance Theory of Order and Constituency - Hawkins | :: | 20 |
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| 1990 | - | Maturational constraints on language learning - Newport | :: | 14 |
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| 1997 | - | Competing motivations and emergence: explaining implicational hierarchies - Kirby | :: | 11 |
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| 1998 | - | Language evolution and the minimalist program: The origins of syntax - Berwick | :: | 9 |
| 1991 | - | Subjacency and sex - Lightfoot | :: | 9 |
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| 1994 | - | Impairments of tense in a familial language disorder - Gopnik | :: | 7 |
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| 1986 | - | Phonetic universals in vowel systems - Lindblom | :: | 6 |
| 1996 | - | Landscapes, learning costs and genetic assimilation - Mayley | :: | 6 |
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| 1987 | - | Parameters and learnability in binding theory - Wexler,Manzini | :: | 5 |
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| 1988 | - | Learning as inference - Staddon | :: | 5 |
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| 1996 | - | Surface Structure and Interpretation - Steedman | :: | 4 |
| 1993 | - | Categorial Grammars - Wood | :: | 4 |
| 1998 | - | Evolutionary Genetics - Maynard-Smith | :: | 4 |
| 1979 | - | Principles of Diachronic Syntax - Lightfoot | :: | 4 |
| 1994 | - | A processing model of free word order languages - Rambow,Joshi | :: | 4 |
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| 1995 | - | Epigenetic Inheritance and Evolution - Jablonka,Lamb | :: | 3 |
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| 1996 | - | On the use of triggers in parameter setting - Frank,Kipur | :: | 3 |
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| 1994 | - | Constraint-based categorial grammar - Bouma,van Noord | :: | 3 |
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| 1983 | - | The theory of coevolution - Roughgarden | :: | 2 |
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| 1988 | - | Applicability of indexed grammars to natural languages - Gazdar | :: | 2 |
| 1995 | - | Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspective - Harris,Campbell | :: | 2 |
| 1991 | - | A Computational Theory of Human Linguistic Processing: Memory Limitations and Processing Breakdown - Gibson | :: | 2 |
| 1995 | - | Maturation and learnability in parametric systems - Bertolo | :: | 2 |
| 1986 | - | From Simple Input to Complex Grammar - Morgan | :: | 2 |
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| 1994 | - | The automatic construction of a symbolic parser via statistical techniques - Kapur,Clark | :: | 1 |
| 1995 | - | Parameters in acquisition - Meisel | :: | 1 |
| 1995 | - | The impact of language socialization on grammatical development - Ochs,Sheiffelin | :: | 1 |
| 1991 | - | Some notes on economy of derivation and representation - Chomsky | :: | 1 |
| 1995 | - | Incremental interpretation of categorial grammar - Milward | :: | 1 |
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| 1988 | - | Categorial Investigations - Moortgat | :: | 1 |
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