| 2002 | - | The role of sequential learning in language evolution: Computational and experimental studies - Christiansen,Dale,Ellefson,Conway | :: | 6 |
| 2002 | - | Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution - Jackendoff | :: | 43 |
| 2002 | - | Simulating the evolution of language - Cangelosi,Parisi | :: | 67 |
| 2001 | - | A forkhead-domain gene is mutated in a severe speech and language disorder - Lai,Fisher,Hurst,Vargha-Khadem,Monaco | :: | 17 |
| 2001 | - | Evolution of universal grammar - Nowak,Komarova,Niyogi | :: | 71 |
| 2001 | - | Yet another zeta function and learning - Rivin | :: | 2 |
| 2001 | - | The Ecology of Language Evolution - Mufwene | :: | 10 |
| 2001 | - | The evolutionary dynamics of the lexical matrix - Komarova,Nowak | :: | 18 |
| 2001 | - | Atoms of Language - Baker | :: | 2 |
| 2001 | - | Lexical-Functional Syntax - Bresnan | :: | 5 |
| 2001 | - | Mathematics of learning - Komarova,Rivin | :: | 1 |
| 2000 | - | The evolution of syntactic communication - Nowak,Plotkin,Jansen | :: | 69 |
| 2000 | - | The evolution of speech: a comparative review - Fitch | :: | 15 |
| 1999 | - | The development of language: Acquisition, change and evolution - Lightfoot | :: | 38 |
| 1999 | - | Possible stages in the evolution of the language capacity - Jackendoff | :: | 21 |
| 1999 | - | The evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer | :: | 74 |
| 1999 | - | The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition - Tomasello | :: | 26 |
| 1999 | - | Educating Eve: The Language Instinct Debate - Sampson | :: | 8 |
| 1998 | - | Approaches to the Evolution of Language: Social and Cognitive Bases - Hurford,Studdert-Kennedy,Knight | :: | 50 |
| 1998 | - | The Emergence of Propositions from the Co-ordination of Talk and Action in a Shared World - Hazlehurst,Hutchins | :: | 10 |
| 1998 | - | Statistical Learning Theory - Vapnik | :: | 10 |
| 1998 | - | Language and the Evolution of Modern Humans - Wang | :: | 2 |
| 1998 | - | Neural basis of an inherited speech and language disorder - Vargha-Khadem | :: | 2 |
| 1998 | - | Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language - Dunbar | :: | 37 |
| 1997 | - | Evolutionary Consequences of Language Learning - Niyogi,Berwick | :: | 26 |
| 1997 | - | The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain - Deacon | :: | 116 |
| 1997 | - | The Evolution of Communication - Hauser | :: | 74 |
| 1997 | - | Genes, peoples and languages - Cavalli-Sforza | :: | 7 |
| 1997 | - | The Major Transitions in Evolution - Maynard-Smith,Szathmary | :: | 44 |
| 1997 | - | Learning, culture and evolution in the origin of linguistic constraints - Kirby,Hurford | :: | 47 |
| 1997 | - | Optimality: From Neural Networks to Universal Grammar - Prince,Smolensky | :: | 5 |
| 1996 | - | The Seeds of Speech - Aitchinson | :: | 3 |
| 1996 | - | Self-organizing vocabularies - Steels | :: | 61 |
| 1996 | - | MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996) - Elman | :: | 1 |
| 1996 | - | Emergence of net-grammar in communicating agents - Hashimoto,Ikegami | :: | 39 |
| 1995 | - | When won't membership queries help - Angluin,Kharitonov | :: | 4 |
| 1994 | - | Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar - Pollard,Sag | :: | 13 |
| 1994 | - | The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language - Pinker | :: | 96 |
| 1993 | - | Press, Cambridge, 1993) - Hopper,Traugott | :: | 1 |
| 1992 | - | The Evolution of Human Languages - Hawkins,Gell-Mann | :: | 13 |
| 1992 | - | Neural networks and the bias/variance dilemma - Geman,Bienenstock,Doursat | :: | 4 |
| 1992 | - | Learning via queries - Gasarch,Smith | :: | 2 |
| 1991 | - | How to Set Parameters: Arguments from Language Change - Lightfoot | :: | 31 |
| 1991 | - | Autolexical Syntax: A Theory of Parallel Grammatical Representations - Sadock | :: | 2 |
| 1991 | - | Familial aggregation of a developmental language disorder - Gopnik,Crago | :: | 16 |
| 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 | - | Reflexes of grammar in patterns of language change - Kroch | :: | 25 |
| 1989 | - | Biological evolution of the Saussurean sign as a component of the language acquisition device - Hurford | :: | 88 |
| 1987 | - | Toward a theory for the evolution of cultural communication: Coevolution of signal transmission and reception - Aoki,Feldman | :: | 3 |
| 1987 | - | Learning regular sets from queries and counterexamples - Angluin | :: | 5 |
| 1987 | - | Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind - Lakoff | :: | 8 |
| 1987 | - | Foundations of Cognitive Linguistics Vol - Langacker | :: | 1 |
| 1986 | - | From icon to symbol: Some speculations on the evolution of natural language - Brandon,Hornstein | :: | 2 |
| 1986 | - | Systems That Learn - Osherson,Stob,Weinstein | :: | 13 |
| 1985 | - | Evidence against the context-freeness of natural language - Shieber | :: | 3 |
| 1984 | - | A theory of learnable - Valiant | :: | 1 |
| 1984 | - | The Biology and Evolution of Language - Lieberman | :: | 36 |
| 1984 | - | Lectures on Government and Binding: The Pisa Lectures - Chomsky | :: | 5 |
| 1982 | - | Language Acquisition: The State of the Art - Bates,MacWhinney | :: | 1 |
| 1982 | - | Natural languages and context free languages - Pullum,Gazdar | :: | 3 |
| 1981 | - | Language Universals and Linguistic Typology - Comrie | :: | 11 |
| 1980 | - | Formal Principles of Language Acquisition - Wexler,Culicover | :: | 29 |
| 1979 | - | Formal models of language learning - Pinker | :: | 5 |
| 1978 | - | Universals of Human Language - Greenberg,Ferguson,Moravcsik | :: | 1 |
| 1978 | - | Introduction to Formal Language Theory - Harrison | :: | 3 |
| 1977 | - | The Behaviour of Communicating - Smith | :: | 6 |
| 1972 | - | Language and Mind - Chomsky | :: | 40 |
| 1971 | - | On the uniform convergence of relative frequencies of events to their probabilities - Vapnik,Chervonenkis | :: | 1 |
| 1967 | - | Language identification in the limit - Gold | :: | 50 |
| 1957 | - | Syntactic Structures - Chomsky | :: | 36 |