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| 1996 | - | A self-organizing spatial vocabulary - Steels | :: | 31 |
| 2000 | - | Social transmission favours linguistic generalization - Hurford | :: | 30 |
| 1998 | - | Spontaneous Lexicon Change - Steels,Kaplan | :: | 18 |
| 1997 | - | Generating vowel systems in a population of agents - de~Boer | :: | 17 |
| 1999 | - | Self-Organisation in Vowel Systems - de~Boer | :: | 15 |
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| 1997 | - | Major trends in vowel system inventories - Schwartz,Boe,Vallee,Abry | :: | 4 |
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