| 1999 | - | Function, Selection and Innateness: the Emergence of Language Universals - Kirby | :: | 62 |
| 1981 | - | Cultural Transmission and Evolution: A quantitative approach - Cavalli-Sforza,Feldman | :: | 30 |
| 1991 | - | The Evolution of the Critical Period for Language Acquisition - Hurford | :: | 28 |
| 1985 | - | Culture and the evolutionary process - Boyd,Richerson | :: | 22 |
| 1994 | - | A performance theory of order and constituency - Hawkins | :: | 20 |
| 1999 | - | Linguistic Diversity - Nettle | :: | 15 |
| 1994 | - | On language change: The invisible hand in language - Keller | :: | 15 |
| 1997 | - | Competing motivations and emergence: explaining implicational hierarchies - Kirby | :: | 11 |
| 1983 | - | The neutral theory of molecular evolution - Kimura | :: | 10 |
| 1993 | - | Adaptive explanations for language universals: A model of Hawkins' performance theory - Kirby | :: | 8 |
| 1980 | - | Language and social networks - Milroy | :: | 5 |
| 1991 | - | Language change: Progress or decay - Aitchison | :: | 4 |
| 1985 | - | The suffixing preference: A processing explanation - Cutler,Hawkins,Gilligan | :: | 4 |
| 1981 | - | The psychology of social impact - Latane | :: | 3 |
| 1921 | - | Language - Sapir | :: | 3 |
| 1963 | - | The social motivation of a sound change - Labov | :: | 2 |
| 1998 | - | Learning from the behavior of others: Conformity, fads, and informational cascades - Bikhchandani,Hirshleifer,Welch | :: | 2 |
| 1990 | - | From private attitude to public opinion: A dynamical theory of social impact - Nowak,Szamrej,Latane | :: | 2 |
| 1988 | - | Center and periphery: Adoption, diffusion and spread - Andersen | :: | 2 |
| 1978 | - | Perceptual and conceptual factors in abductive change - Andersen | :: | 2 |
| 1965 | - | A Monte Carlo approach to diffusion - Hagerstrand | :: | 1 |
| 1986 | - | Basic constituent orders: Functional principles - Tomlin | :: | 1 |
| 1995 | - | Sociolinguistic theory - Chambers | :: | 1 |
| 1968 | - | Problems of description in multilingual communities - LePage | :: | 1 |
| 1998 | - | Recent trends in the size distribution of household wealth - Wolff | :: | 1 |
| 1981 | - | The social impact of majorities and minorities - Latane,Wolf | :: | 1 |
| 1983 | - | All alone in front of all those people: Stage fright as a function of number and type of co-performers - Jackson,Latant | :: | 1 |
| 1995 | - | Is sound change adaptive - Lindblom,Guion,Hura,Moon,Willerman | :: | 1 |
| 1996 | - | The evolution of linguistic diversity - Nettle | :: | 1 |
| 1969 | - | Historical linguistics and generative grammar - King | :: | 1 |
| 1981 | - | Ten years of research on group size and helping - Latane,Nida | :: | 1 |