| 2005 | - | Needs only analysis - Wray | :: | 1 |
| 2004 | - | From UG to Universals: linguistic adaptation through iterated learning - Kirby,Smith,Brighton | :: | 8 |
| 2003 | - | Intelligent Meaning Creation in A Clumpy World Helps Communication - Smith | :: | 18 |
| 2003 | - | Iterated Learning and Grounding: From Holistic to Compositional Languages - Vogt | :: | 5 |
| 2003 | - | Differential object marking: iconicity vs - Aissen | :: | 2 |
| 2003 | - | Simulating language change with functional OT - Jager | :: | 1 |
| 2003 | - | How the poverty of the stimulus solves the poverty of the stimulus - Zuidema | :: | 10 |
| 2003 | - | The Transmission of Language: models of biological and cultural evolution - Smith | :: | 13 |
| 2002 | - | Linguistic Adaptation Without Linguistic Constraints: The Role of Sequential Learning in Language Evolution - Christiansen,Ellefson | :: | 5 |
| 2002 | - | Compositional Syntax from Cultural Transmission - Brighton | :: | 46 |
| 2002 | - | The negotiation and acquisition of recursive grammars as a result of competition among exemplars - Batali | :: | 56 |
| 2002 | - | Natural Language from Artificial Life - Kirby | :: | 50 |
| 2002 | - | Expression/induction models of language evolution: dimensions and issues - Hurford | :: | 27 |
| 2002 | - | The Faculty of Language: What Is It, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve? - Hauser,Chomsky,Fitch | :: | 52 |
| 2002 | - | The cultural evolution of communication in a population of neural networks - Smith | :: | 26 |
| 2002 | - | Learning, Bottlenecks and the Evolution of Recursive Syntax - Kirby | :: | 71 |
| 2002 | - | The Emergence of Linguistic Structure: An overview of the Iterated Learning Model - Kirby,Hurford | :: | 43 |
| 2002 | - | Formulaic language and the lexicon - Wray | :: | 8 |
| 2001 | - | Spontaneous evolution of linguistic structure: an iterated learning model of the emergence of regularity and irregularity - Kirby | :: | 77 |
| 2001 | - | Evolution of universal grammar - Nowak,Komarova,Niyogi | :: | 71 |
| 2001 | - | What's so special about speech - Hauser | :: | 3 |
| 2001 | - | The Survival of the Smallest: Stability Conditions for the Cultural Evolution of Compositional Language - Brighton,Kirby | :: | 20 |
| 2001 | - | On the Origins of Linguistic Structure: Computational models of the evolution of language - Tonkes | :: | 5 |
| 2001 | - | Simulating the Formation of Color Categories - Belpaeme | :: | 9 |
| 2001 | - | Emergent syntax: the unremitting value of computational modeling for understanding the origins of complex language - Zuidema | :: | 7 |
| 2000 | - | Social transmission favours linguistic generalization - Hurford | :: | 30 |
| 2000 | - | Syntax without Natural Selection: How compositionality emerges from vocabulary in a population of learners - Kirby | :: | 69 |
| 1999 | - | The learning barrier: Moving from innate to learned systems of communication - Oliphant | :: | 38 |
| 1999 | - | Compression and Adaptation - Teal,Albro,Stabler,Taylor | :: | 9 |
| 1999 | - | Self-Organisation in Vowel Systems - de~Boer | :: | 15 |
| 1998 | - | Computational simulations of the emergence of grammar - Batali | :: | 90 |
| 1998 | - | Beyond Grammar: An Experience-Based Theory of Language - Bod | :: | 9 |
| 1997 | - | Formal Approaches to Innate and Learned Communication: Laying the Foundation for Language - Oliphant | :: | 23 |
| 1997 | - | Learning, culture and evolution in the origin of linguistic constraints - Kirby,Hurford | :: | 47 |
| 1997 | - | Learning and the emergence of coordinated communication - Oliphant,Batali | :: | 52 |
| 1994 | - | Innate biases and critical periods: Combining evolution and learning in the acquisition of syntax - Batali | :: | 43 |
| 1991 | - | Instance-based learning algorithms - Aha,Kibler,Albert | :: | 6 |
| 1991 | - | Functional explanation in linguistics and the origins of language - Newmeyer | :: | 23 |
| 1990 | - | Nativist and functional explanations in language acquisition - Hurford | :: | 20 |
| 1990 | - | Case-based planning: A framework for planning from experience - Hammond | :: | 2 |
| 1990 | - | Language and Species - Bickerton | :: | 74 |
| 1989 | - | On the indistinguishability of exemplar memory and abstraction in category representation - Barsalou | :: | 2 |
| 1989 | - | Biological evolution of the Saussurean sign as a component of the language acquisition device - Hurford | :: | 88 |
| 1987 | - | Functionalism and the competition model - MacWhinney,Bates | :: | 2 |
| 1987 | - | Language and Number: the emergence of a cognitive system - Hurford | :: | 23 |
| 1986 | - | Knowledge of Language - Chomsky | :: | 19 |
| 1980 | - | Rules and Representations - Chomsky | :: | 47 |
| 1978 | - | Context theory of classification learning - Medin,Schaffer | :: | 3 |
| 1974 | - | Decoding the language of the bee - von Frisch | :: | 9 |
| 1970 | - | English as a formal language - Montague | :: | 3 |
| 1967 | - | Language identification in the limit - Gold | :: | 50 |
| 1965 | - | Aspects of the theory of syntax - Chomsky | :: | 72 |
| 1955 | - | Machine literature searching viii: Operational criteria for designing information retrieval systems - Kent,Berry,Leuhrs,Perry | :: | 2 |
| 1949 | - | The Organization of Behavior: A Neuropsychological Theory - Hebb | :: | 2 |