| 1994 | - | The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language - Pinker | :: | 96 |
| 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 |
| 1992 | - | Evolution of Communication in Artificial Organisms - Werner,Dyer | :: | 75 |
| 1990 | - | Language and Species - Bickerton | :: | 74 |
| 1997 | - | The Evolution of Communication - Hauser | :: | 74 |
| 1996 | - | The dilemma of Saussurean communication - Oliphant | :: | 54 |
| 1996 | - | Emergent Adaptive Lexicons - Steels | :: | 50 |
| 1990 | - | How monkeys see the world: Inside the mind of another species - Cheney,Seyfarth | :: | 42 |
| 1993 | - | Synthetic Ethology and the Evolution of Cooperative Communication - MacLennan,Burghardt | :: | 38 |
| 1994 | - | Altruism in the evolution of communication - Ackley,Littman | :: | 36 |
| 1991 | - | How to Set Parameters: Arguments from Language Change - Lightfoot | :: | 31 |
| 1987 | - | Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin, and Use - Chomsky | :: | 28 |
| 1995 | - | The Minimalist Program - Chomsky | :: | 27 |
| 1984 | - | Animal signals: Mind-reading and manipulation - Krebs,Dawkins | :: | 21 |
| 1960 | - | The origin of speech - Charles | :: | 17 |
| 1993 | - | The Lexicon in Acquisition - Clark | :: | 15 |
| 1997 | - | An Artificial Life Approach to Language - Parisi | :: | 15 |
| 1969 | - | Convention: A Philosophical Study - Lewis | :: | 11 |
| 1992 | - | Learning in the Cultural Process - Hutchins,Hazlehurst | :: | 10 |
| 1962 | - | How to do Things with Words - Austin | :: | 8 |
| 1960 | - | Logical considerations in the study of animal communication - Hockett | :: | 8 |
| 1982 | - | Names for Things: A Study of Human Learning - Macnamara | :: | 8 |
| 1973 | - | The logic of animal conflict - Maynard-Smith,Price | :: | 7 |
| 1996 | - | Evolution of the Social Contract - Skyrms | :: | 6 |
| 1995 | - | Bird Song: Biological Themes and Variations - Catchpole,Slater | :: | 6 |
| 1989 | - | A phonological analysis of male gibbon singing behavior - Mitani,Marler | :: | 6 |
| 1965 | - | The evolution of alarm calls - Maynard-Smith | :: | 5 |
| 1980 | - | Vervet monkey alarm calls: semantic communication in a free-ranging primate - Seyfarth,Cheney,Marler | :: | 5 |
| 1952 | - | Derived activities: Their causation, biological significance, origin and emancipation during evolution - Tinbergen | :: | 4 |
| 1982 | - | Strategic information transmission - Crawford,Sobel | :: | 4 |
| 1981 | - | Animal signals: Ethological and games-theory approaches are not incompatible - Hinde | :: | 4 |
| 1993 | - | Evolutionary stability in games of communication - Blume,Kim,Sobel | :: | 4 |
| 1982 | - | Functionalist approaches to grammar - Bates,MacWhinney | :: | 4 |
| 1993 | - | On the meaning of alarm calls --functional reference in an avian vocal system - Evans,Evans,Marler | :: | 4 |
| 1995 | - | An evolutionary approach to pre-play communication - Kim,Sobel | :: | 3 |
| 1993 | - | Cheap talk, coordination, and evolutionary stability - Warneryd | :: | 3 |
| 1970 | - | Control, suppression, decay, disappearance and replacement of displays - Moynihan | :: | 3 |
| 1991 | - | Natural Theories of Mind: Evolution, Development and Simulation of Everyday Mindreading - Whiten | :: | 3 |
| 1969 | - | Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language - Searle | :: | 3 |
| 1997 | - | Communication as altruistic behavior - Oliphant | :: | 3 |
| 1989 | - | Studies in the Way of Words - Grice | :: | 3 |
| 1996 | - | Social Learning in Animals: The Roots of Culture - Heyes,Galef | :: | 3 |
| 1988 | - | Communication, coordination, and Nash equilibrium - Farrell | :: | 2 |
| 1987 | - | How children constrain the possible meanings of words - Markman | :: | 2 |
| 1973 | - | Job market signaling - Spence | :: | 2 |
| 1977 | - | The Behavior of Communicating: An Ethological Approach - Smith | :: | 2 |
| 1982 | - | The Mental Representation of Grammatical Relations - Bresnan | :: | 2 |
| 1996 | - | Vertebrate Life - Pough,Heiser,McFarland | :: | 2 |
| 1995 | - | Pragmatic contexts for early verb learning - Tomasello | :: | 2 |
| 1983 | - | The codes of man and beast - Premack | :: | 2 |
| 1994 | - | Rapid word learning in 13and 18-month-olds - Woodward,Markman,Fitzsimmons | :: | 2 |
| 1990 | - | Beyond the input given: The child's role in the acquisition of language - Goldin-Meadow,Mylander | :: | 2 |
| 1996 | - | An investigation into the evolution of communicative behaviors - Paolo | :: | 2 |
| 1983 | - | Convention and contrast in acquiring the lexicon - Clark | :: | 2 |
| 1992 | - | Learning language conventions in common interest signaling games - Canning | :: | 2 |
| 1986 | - | An introduction to cognitive grammar - Langacker | :: | 2 |
| 1995 | - | Golden-Marmot alarm calls: The production of situationally specific vocalizations - Blumstein | :: | 1 |
| 1985 | - | Ecological Aspects of Social Evolution: Birds and Mammals - Rubenstein,Wrangham | :: | 1 |
| 1996 | - | Communication and expectations: A social process and the cognitive operations it depends upon and influences - Smith | :: | 1 |
| 1993 | - | An adaptive communication protocol for cooperating mobile robots - Yanko,Stein | :: | 1 |
| 1976 | - | The social function of intellect - Humphrey | :: | 1 |
| 1996 | - | Rapid word learning in 15-montholds under tightly controlled conditions - Schafer,Plunkett | :: | 1 |
| 1983 | - | Nepotism and alarm calling in the black-tailed prairie dog, cynomys ludovicianus - Hoogland | :: | 1 |
| 1967 | - | Auditory communication among vervet monkeys - Struhsaker | :: | 1 |
| 1995 | - | Language and animal communication: Parallels and contrasts - Evans,Marler | :: | 1 |
| 1975 | - | The Rat: A Study in Behavior - Barnett | :: | 1 |
| 1980 | - | Why are there so many threat displays - Andersson | :: | 1 |
| 1993 | - | Meaning and credibility in cheap-talk games - Farrell | :: | 1 |
| 1985 | - | Bird Behavior - Burton | :: | 1 |
| 1973 | - | Concepts and words in the 18 monthold: Acquiring concept names under controlled conditions - Nelson,Bonvillian | :: | 1 |
| 1957 | - | Philosophical Review, pages - Meaning | :: | 1 |
| 1995 | - | The Black-Tailed Prairie Dog: Social Life of a Burrowing Mammal - Hoogland | :: | 1 |
| 1983 | - | Infants' ability to consult the speaker for cues to word reference - Baldwin | :: | 1 |
| 1992 | - | Children's Syntax: An Introduction to Principles and Parameters Theory - Atkinson | :: | 1 |
| 1983 | - | Panglossian paradigm - Intentional | :: | 1 |
| 1983 | - | Translated by R - de Saussure | :: | 1 |
| 1994 | - | Context-specific alarm calls of the eastern chipmunk, tamias striatus - Dasilva,Kramer,Weary | :: | 1 |
| 1986 | - | The deceptive use of alarm calls by sentinel species in mixed-species flocks of neotropical birds - Munn | :: | 1 |
| 1993 | - | Animal communication via coordinated cognitive systems - Johnson | :: | 1 |
| 1988 | - | Towards the next generation of data quality: A new survey of primate tactical deception - Byrne,Whiten | :: | 1 |
| 1991 | - | Semantic information distinguishing individual predators in the alarm calls of gunnison prairie dogs - Slobodchikov,Kiriazis,Fischer,Creef | :: | 1 |
| 1984 | - | Communication and convention - Davidson | :: | 1 |
| 1987 | - | Signaling games and stable equilibria - Cho,Kreps | :: | 1 |
| 1974 | - | Intention and convention in speech acts - Strawson | :: | 1 |
| 1984 | - | Syntactic structure in the vocalizations of wedge-capped capuchin monkeys, cebus nigrivittatus - Robinson | :: | 1 |
| 1976 | - | Linguistic Behavior - Bennett | :: | 1 |
| 1975 | - | Languages and language - Lewis | :: | 1 |