| 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 |
| 1999 | - | Function, Selection and Innateness: the Emergence of Language Universals - Kirby | :: | 62 |
| 1896 | - | A new factor in evolution - BALDWIN | :: | 29 |
| 1987 | - | How learning can guide evolution - HINTON,NOWLAN | :: | 29 |
| 1991 | - | The Evolution of the Critical Period for Language Acquisition - Hurford | :: | 28 |
| 1989 | - | Reflexes of grammar in patterns of language change - Kroch | :: | 25 |
| 1995 | - | The Logical Problem of Language Change - Niyogi,Berwick | :: | 24 |
| 1991 | - | Functional explanation in linguistics and the origins of language - Newmeyer | :: | 23 |
| 1990 | - | Nativist and functional explanations in language acquisition - Hurford | :: | 20 |
| 1990 | - | Typology and universals - CROFT | :: | 20 |
| 1994 | - | A performance theory of order and constituency - HAWKINS | :: | 20 |
| 1982 | - | The Extended Phenotype - DAWKINS | :: | 13 |
| 1992 | - | The Greenbergian word order correlations - DRYER | :: | 12 |
| 1963 | - | Some universals of grammar with particular reference to the order of meaningful elements - GREENBERG | :: | 11 |
| 1988 | - | Explaining language universals - HAWKINS | :: | 11 |
| 1991 | - | Introduction to Government and Binding Theory - HAEGEMAN | :: | 11 |
| 1997 | - | Competing motivations and emergence: explaining implicational hierarchies - Kirby | :: | 11 |
| 1991 | - | Interactions between learning and evolution - ACKLEY,LITTMAN | :: | 11 |
| 1981 | - | Language Universals and Linguistic Typology - COMRIE | :: | 11 |
| 1991 | - | Subjacency and sex - LIGHTFOOT | :: | 9 |
| 1994 | - | Adaptive explanations for language universals: a model of Hawkins' performance theory - KIRBY | :: | 8 |
| 1996 | - | Internal and external factors affecting language change: A computational model - CLARK | :: | 7 |
| 1992 | - | Complexity and Complex Adaptive Systems - Gell-Mann | :: | 7 |
| 1995 | - | Without Miracles: Universal Selection Theory and the Second Darwinian Revolution - CZIKO | :: | 7 |
| 1990 | - | A parsing theory of word order universals - HAWKINS | :: | 6 |
| 1984 | - | The Grammatical Basis of Linguistic Performance: Language Use and Acquisition - BERWICK,WEINBERG | :: | 6 |
| 1977 | - | Noun phrase accessibility and universal grammar - KEENAN,COMRIE | :: | 5 |
| 1988 | - | The innateness hypothesis - HOEKSTRA,KOOIJ | :: | 4 |
| 1974 | - | The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change - LEWONTIN | :: | 4 |
| 1996 | - | Constraints on constraints, or the limits of functional adaptation - KIRBY | :: | 4 |
| 1985 | - | The suffixing preference: a processing explanation - CUTLER,HAWKINS,GILLIGAN | :: | 4 |
| 1984 | - | The Nature of Selection: Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus - SOBER | :: | 4 |
| 1987 | - | The psychological validity of the accessibility hierarchy - KEENAN,HAWKINS | :: | 3 |
| 1994 | - | Morphosyntactic variation - KROCH | :: | 3 |
| 1986 | - | Introduction to the Theory of Grammar - RIEMSDIJK,WILLIAMS | :: | 3 |
| 1979 | - | Noun phrase accessibility revisited - COMRIE,KEENAN | :: | 3 |
| 1994 | - | Some issues in a performance theory of word order - HAWKINS | :: | 2 |
| 1989 | - | Function and grammar in the history of English - KROCH | :: | 2 |
| 1996 | - | The evolution of incremental learning - KIRBY,HURFORD | :: | 1 |