| 1957 | - | Syntactic structures - Chomsky | :: | 36 |
| 1995 | - | The minimalist program - Chomsky | :: | 27 |
| 2003 | - | Least effort and the origins of scaling in human language - Ferrer-i-Cancho,Sole | :: | 17 |
| 1949 | - | Human behavior and the principle of least effort - Zipf | :: | 11 |
| 1998 | - | Collective dynamics of ‘small-world’ networks - Watts,Strogatz | :: | 11 |
| 2001 | - | The small world of human language - Ferrer-i-Cancho,Sole | :: | 11 |
| 2004 | - | Patterns in syntactic dependency networks - Ferrer-i-Cancho,Sole | :: | 8 |
| 2002 | - | Topology of the conceptual network of language - Motter,de~Moura,Lai,Dasgupta | :: | 6 |
| 2005 | - | The consequences of Zipf's law for syntax and symbolic reference - Ferrer-i-Cancho,Riordan,Bollobas | :: | 6 |
| 2001 | - | Language as an evolving word web - Dorogovtsev,Mendes | :: | 6 |
| 2005 | - | Decoding least effort and scaling in signal frequency distributions - Ferrer-i-Cancho | :: | 5 |
| 2002 | - | Global organization of the Wordnet lexicon - Sigman,Cecchi | :: | 5 |
| 1935 | - | The psycho-biology of language: an introduction to dynamic philology - Zipf | :: | 4 |
| 2003 | - | The structure and function of complex networks - Newman | :: | 4 |
| 2001 | - | The large-scale structure of semantic networks: statistical analyses and a model of semantic growth - Steyvers,Tenenbaum | :: | 4 |
| 1998 | - | Rhyme and Reason - Uriagereka | :: | 4 |
| 2005 | - | The large-scale structure of semantic networks: statistical analyses and a model of semantic growth - Steyvers,Tenenbaum | :: | 4 |
| 1995 | - | WordNet: a lexical database for English - Miller | :: | 3 |
| 2002 | - | Evolution of networks - Dorogovtsev,Mendes | :: | 3 |
| 1987 | - | Neurolinguistics and linguistic aphasiology - Caplan | :: | 3 |
| 2004 | - | The Euclidean distance between syntactically linked words - Ferrer-i-Cancho | :: | 2 |
| 2002 | - | Deterministic walks in random networks: an application to thesaurus graphs - Kinouchi,Martinez,Lima,Kinouchi,Risau-Gusman | :: | 2 |
| 2005 | - | Zipf's law from a communicative phase transition - Ferrer-i-Cancho | :: | 2 |
| 2003 | - | Optimization in complex networks - Ferrer,Sole | :: | 2 |
| 2005 | - | Power laws, Pareto distributions and Zipf’ s law - Newman | :: | 2 |
| 1998 | - | Constraints on sentence comprehension - Gibson,Pearlmutter | :: | 1 |
| 2004 | - | Superfamilies of evolved and designed networks - Milo,Itzkovitz,Kashtan,Levitt,Shen-Orr,Ayzenshtat,Sheffer,Alon | :: | 1 |
| 2001 | - | Correction: Error and attack tolerance of complex networks - Albert,Albert,Albert | :: | 1 |
| 1990 | - | WordNet: an on-line lexical database - Miller,Beckwith,Miller,Miller | :: | 1 |
| 2002 | - | Lethality and centrality in protein networks - Jeong,Mason,Jeong,Oltvai | :: | 1 |
| 2003 | - | Accelerated growth of networks - Dorogovtsev,Mendes | :: | 1 |
| 2005 | - | Detecting communities in large networks - Capocci,Servedio,Caldarelli,Colaiori | :: | 1 |
| 1998 | - | Modern graph theory - Bollobs | :: | 1 |
| 2005 | - | Consequences of the serial nature of linguistic input for sentential complexity - Grodner,Gibson | :: | 1 |
| 2005 | - | Synchronous neural activity in scale-free network models versus random network models - Grinstein,Linsker | :: | 1 |
| 1996 | - | Quantitative linguistics and complex systems studies - Balasubrahmanyan,Naranan | :: | 1 |
| 2006 | - | When language breaks into pieces: A conflict between communication through isolated signals and language - Ferrer-i-Cancho | :: | 1 |
| 2001 | - | World Wide Web scaling from Simon’ s 1955 model - Bornholdt,Ebel | :: | 1 |
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| 2005 | - | Why do syntactic links not cross - Ferrer | :: | 1 |
| 1995 | - | Linguistics - Akmajian,Harnish,Demers,Farmer | :: | 1 |
| 2002 | - | Statistical mechanics of complex networks - Albert,Albert | :: | 1 |
| 2003 | - | Evolution of networks - From biological nets to the Internet and the WWW - Dorovotsev,Mendes | :: | 1 |
| 2005 | - | Scale-free brain functional networks - Egu,Apkarian | :: | 1 |
| 2000 | - | Error and attack tolerance of complex networks - Albert,Albert,Albert | :: | 1 |
| 2005 | - | Spectral methods cluster words of the same part-of-speech in a syntactic dependency network - Ferrer,Caldarelli | :: | 1 |