| 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 | - | Function, Selection and Innateness: the Emergence of Language Universals - Kirby | :: | 62 |
| 1998 | - | Language as a Complex Adaptive System: Coevolution of Language and of the Language Acquisition Device - Briscoe | :: | 14 |
| 1998 | - | Protolanguage as a holistic system for social interaction - Wray | :: | 27 |
| 1998 | - | Language evolution without natural selection: From vocabulary to syntax in a population of learners - Kirby | :: | 14 |
| 1998 | - | Approaches to the Evolution of Language: Social and Cognitive Bases - Hurford,Studdert-Kennedy,Knight | :: | 50 |
| 1998 | - | Computational simulations of the emergence of grammar - Batali | :: | 90 |
| 1998 | - | The emergence of a language in an evolving population of neural networks - Cangelosi,Parisi | :: | 57 |
| 1997 | - | Recursive inconsistencies are hard to learn: A connectionist perspective on universal word order correlations - Christiansen,Devlin | :: | 15 |
| 1997 | - | Co-evolution of Language and of the Language Acquisition Device - Briscoe | :: | 9 |
| 1997 | - | Machine Learning - Mitchell | :: | 18 |
| 1997 | - | Competing motivations and emergence: explaining implicational hierarchies - Kirby | :: | 11 |
| 1997 | - | The evolution of incremental learning: language, development and critical periods - Kirby,Hurford | :: | 8 |
| 1997 | - | Populations of Learners: The Case of European Portuguese - Niyogi,Berwick | :: | 3 |
| 1997 | - | Learning, culture and evolution in the origin of linguistic constraints - Kirby,Hurford | :: | 47 |
| 1996 | - | Emergent Adaptive Lexicons - Steels | :: | 50 |
| 1996 | - | Internal and external factors affecting language change: A computational model - Clark | :: | 7 |
| 1996 | - | The dilemma of Saussurean communication - Oliphant | :: | 54 |
| 1995 | - | The Logical Problem of Language Change - Niyogi,Berwick | :: | 24 |
| 1994 | - | Innate biases and critical periods: Combining evolution and learning in the acquisition of syntax - Batali | :: | 43 |
| 1994 | - | Infinite Languages, Finite Minds: Connectionism, Learning and Linguistic Structure - Christiansen | :: | 22 |
| 1993 | - | Learning and development in neural networks: The importance of starting small - Elman | :: | 30 |
| 1992 | - | Synthetic Ethology: An approach to the study of communication - MacLennan | :: | 52 |
| 1992 | - | The Greenbergian word order correlations - Dryer | :: | 12 |
| 1991 | - | The Evolution of the Critical Period for Language Acquisition - Hurford | :: | 28 |
| 1991 | - | Functional explanation in linguistics and the origins of language - Newmeyer | :: | 23 |
| 1990 | - | Language and Species - Bickerton | :: | 74 |
| 1990 | - | Natural language and natural selection - Pinker,Bloom | :: | 137 |
| 1989 | - | Biological evolution of the Saussurean sign as a component of the language acquisition device - Hurford | :: | 88 |
| 1988 | - | The innateness hypothesis - Hoekstra,Kooij | :: | 4 |
| 1987 | - | Language and Number: the emergence of a cognitive system - Hurford | :: | 23 |
| 1986 | - | Knowledge of Language - Chomsky | :: | 19 |
| 1983 | - | Word Order Universals - Hawkins | :: | 5 |
| 1977 | - | X-Syntax: A Study of Phrase Structure - Jackendoff | :: | 3 |