| 1990 | - | Natural language and natural selection - Pinker,Bloom | :: | 137 |
| 1997 | - | The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain - Deacon | :: | 116 |
| 1998 | - | Computational simulations of the emergence of grammar - Batali | :: | 90 |
| 1989 | - | Biological evolution of the Saussurean sign as a component of the language acquisition device - Hurford | :: | 88 |
| 1990 | - | Language and Species - Bickerton | :: | 74 |
| 2002 | - | Learning, Bottlenecks and the Evolution of Recursive Syntax - Kirby | :: | 71 |
| 1999 | - | Function, Selection and Innateness: the Emergence of Language Universals - Kirby | :: | 62 |
| 1998 | - | The emergence of a language in an evolving population of neural networks - Cangelosi,Parisi | :: | 57 |
| 1996 | - | The dilemma of Saussurean communication - Oliphant | :: | 54 |
| 1992 | - | Synthetic Ethology: An approach to the study of communication - MacLennan | :: | 52 |
| 1996 | - | Emergent Adaptive Lexicons - Steels | :: | 50 |
| 1998 | - | Approaches to the Evolution of Language: Social and Cognitive Bases - Hurford,Studdert-Kennedy,Knight | :: | 50 |
| 1997 | - | Learning, culture and evolution in the origin of linguistic constraints - Kirby,Hurford | :: | 47 |
| 1994 | - | Innate biases and critical periods: Combining evolution and learning in the acquisition of syntax - Batali | :: | 43 |
| 1998 | - | Fitness and the selective adaptation of language - Kirby | :: | 31 |
| 1991 | - | The Evolution of the Critical Period for Language Acquisition - Hurford | :: | 28 |
| 1998 | - | Protolanguage as a holistic system for social interaction - Wray | :: | 27 |
| 1997 | - | Formal Approaches to Innate and Learned Communication: Laying the Foundation for Language - Oliphant | :: | 23 |
| 1991 | - | Functional explanation in linguistics and the origins of language - Newmeyer | :: | 23 |
| 1987 | - | Language and Number: the emergence of a cognitive system - Hurford | :: | 23 |
| 1994 | - | Infinite Languages, Finite Minds: Connectionism, Learning and Linguistic Structure - Christiansen | :: | 22 |
| 1986 | - | Knowledge of Language - CHOMSKY | :: | 19 |
| 1998 | - | Language evolution without natural selection: From vocabulary to syntax in a population of learners - Kirby | :: | 14 |
| 1994 | - | Bayesian Learning of Probabilistic Language Models - STOLCKE | :: | 11 |
| 1997 | - | Competing motivations and emergence: explaining implicational hierarchies - Kirby | :: | 11 |
| 1999 | - | The Evolution of Language and Languages - Hurford | :: | 9 |
| 1992 | - | Complexity and Complex Adaptive Systems - Gell-Mann | :: | 7 |
| 1997 | - | Language acquisition: the bioprogram hypothesis and the Baldwin Effect - BRISCOE | :: | 7 |
| 1993 | - | Formal Semantics: An introduction - CANN | :: | 5 |
| 1992 | - | Iconicity and generative grammar - NEWMEYER | :: | 5 |
| 1997 | - | Learning stochastic categorial grammars - OSBORNE,BRISCOE | :: | 3 |
| 1997 | - | Populations of Learners: The Case of European Portuguese - Niyogi,Berwick | :: | 3 |