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| 1987 | - | How learning can guide evolution - Hinton,Nowlan | :: | 29 |
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| 1997 | - | Evolutionary Consequences of Language Learning - Niyogi,Berwick | :: | 26 |
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| 1990 | - | Typology and Universals - Croft | :: | 20 |
| 2002 | - | Grammatical Acquisition and Linguistic Selection - Briscoe | :: | 19 |
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| 2002 | - | Empirical assessment of stimulus poverty arguments - Pullum,Scholz | :: | 12 |
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| 1999 | - | The Acquisition of Grammar in an Evolving Population of Language Agents - Briscoe | :: | 10 |
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| 1997 | - | Co-evolution of Language and of the Language Acquisition Device - Briscoe | :: | 9 |
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| 1988 | - | Learning as inference - Staddon | :: | 5 |
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| 1990 | - | Reply to Pinker and Bloom - Ridley | :: | 4 |
| 1998 | - | Evolutionary Genetics - Maynard-Smith | :: | 4 |
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