| 1989 | - | Biological evolution of the Saussurean sign as a component of the language acquisition device - Hurford | :: | 88 |
| 1965 | - | Aspects of the theory of syntax - Chomsky | :: | 72 |
| 1980 | - | Rules and representations - Chomsky | :: | 47 |
| 1976 | - | The selfish gene - Dawkins | :: | 43 |
| 1972 | - | Language and mind - Chomsky | :: | 40 |
| 1984 | - | The Biology and Evolution of Language - Lieberman | :: | 36 |
| 1980 | - | Formal principles of language acquisition - Wexler,Culicover | :: | 29 |
| 1981 | - | Lectures on government and binding - Chomsky | :: | 29 |
| 1987 | - | How learning can guide evolution - Hinton,Nowlan | :: | 29 |
| 1986 | - | Knowledge of language: Its nature, origin, and use - Chomsky | :: | 28 |
| 1984 | - | The Language Bioprogram Hypothesis - Bickerton | :: | 28 |
| 1991 | - | The Evolution of the Critical Period for Language Acquisition - Hurford | :: | 28 |
| 1981 | - | Roots of language - Bickerton | :: | 27 |
| 1975 | - | Reflections on language - Chomsky | :: | 25 |
| 1984 | - | Language Learnability and Language Development - Pinker | :: | 19 |
| 1989 | - | Learnability and Cognition: The acquisition of Argument Structure - Pinker | :: | 17 |
| 1971 | - | The evolution of reciprocal altruism - Trivers | :: | 17 |
| 1967 | - | Biological foundations of language - Lenneberg | :: | 16 |
| 1975 | - | The language of thought - Fodor | :: | 15 |
| 1988 | - | Explaining language universals - Hawkins | :: | 11 |
| 1970 | - | Derivational complexity and order of acquisition in child speech - Brown,Hanlon | :: | 11 |
| 1966 | - | Universals of language - Greenberg | :: | 10 |
| 1982 | - | Exaptation -- a missing term in the science of form - Gould,Vrba | :: | 10 |
| 1983 | - | The modularity of mind - Fodor | :: | 9 |
| 1988 | - | Language and problems of knowledge: The Managua lectures - Chomsky | :: | 9 |
| 1930 | - | The genetical theory of natural selection - Fisher | :: | 9 |
| 1981 | - | The evolution of cooperation - Axelrod,Hamilton | :: | 7 |
| 1967 | - | Perception of the speech code - Liberman,Cooper,Shankweiler,Studdert-Kennedy | :: | 7 |
| 1974 | - | Parent-offspring conflict - Trivers | :: | 7 |
| 1966 | - | Adaptation and natural selection: A critique of some current evolutionary thought - Williams | :: | 7 |
| 1977 | - | Evolution and tinkering - Jacob | :: | 7 |
| 1985 | - | Morphology: A study of the relation between meaning and form - Bybee | :: | 6 |
| 1976 | - | Origins and Evolution of Language and Speech - Harnad,Steklis,Lancaster | :: | 6 |
| 1959 | - | Course in general linguistics - Saussure | :: | 6 |
| 1988 | - | Force dynamics in language and cognition - Talmy | :: | 6 |
| 1969 | - | The architecture of complexity - Simon | :: | 6 |
| 1859 | - | On the origin of species - Darwin | :: | 6 |
| 1984 | - | Parameters and learnability in binding theory - Wexler,Manzini | :: | 5 |
| 1983 | - | Semantics and cognition - Jackendoff | :: | 5 |
| 1986 | - | The blind watchmaker: Why the evidence of evolution reveals a universe without design - Dawkins | :: | 5 |
| 1989 | - | Symbols and syntax: A Darwinian approach to language development - Bates,Thal,Marchman | :: | 5 |
| 1989 | - | A specialization for speech perception - Liberman,Mattingly | :: | 5 |
| xxxx | - | Limits on negative information in language input - Morgan,Travis | :: | 5 |
| 1983 | - | Universal Darwinism - Dawkins | :: | 5 |
| 1979 | - | Formal models of language learning - Pinker | :: | 5 |
| 1984 | - | The grammatical basis of linguistic performance - Berwick,Weinberg | :: | 4 |
| 1977 | - | Punctuated equilibria: The tempo and mode of evolution reconsidered - Gould,Eldredge | :: | 4 |
| 1989 | - | The logic of social exchange: Has natural selection shaped how humans reason - Cosmides | :: | 4 |
| 1984 | - | Optimization theory in evolution - Maynard-Smith | :: | 4 |
| 1977 | - | Filters and control - Chomsky,Lasnik | :: | 4 |
| 1983 | - | Shareability: The social psychology of epistemology - Freyd | :: | 3 |
| 1977 | - | Language change in childhood and in history - Slobin | :: | 3 |
| 1976 | - | Historical linguistics and the origin of language - Kiparsky | :: | 3 |
| 1981 | - | Language universals and linguistic typology: Syntax and morphology - Comrie | :: | 3 |
| 1979 | - | The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian program: A critique of the adaptationist programme - Gould,Lewontin | :: | 3 |
| 1978 | - | Adaptation - Lewontin | :: | 3 |
| 1988 | - | Genetic and fossil evidence for the origin of modern humans - Stringer,Andrews | :: | 3 |
| 1986 | - | From icons to symbols: Some speculations on the origin of language - Brandon,Hornstein | :: | 3 |
| 1987 | - | The limits of adaptation: Is language a spandrel of the human brain - Gould | :: | 3 |
| 1990 | - | Semantic structures - Jackendoff | :: | 3 |
| 1957 | - | Verbal Behavior - Skinner | :: | 3 |
| 1964 | - | The genetical evolution of social behavior, I & II - Hamilton | :: | 3 |
| 1982 | - | The extended phenotype: The gene as the unit of selection - Dawkins | :: | 3 |
| 1982 | - | Discussion of Putnam's comments - Chomsky | :: | 2 |
| 1947 | - | Elements of symbolic logic - Reichenbach | :: | 2 |
| 1988 | - | On language and connectionism: Analysis of a Parallel Distributed Processing model of language acquisition - Pinker,Prince | :: | 2 |
| 1976 | - | Towards a universal definition of "subject" - Keenan | :: | 2 |
| 1983 | - | Intentional systems in cognitive ethology: The 'Panglossian Paradigm' defended - Dennett | :: | 2 |
| 1987 | - | The reconstruction of hominid evolution through strategic modeling - Tooby,DeVore | :: | 2 |
| 1988 | - | The relation between linguistic structure and associative theories of language learning -- a constructive critique of some connectionist learning models - Lachter,Bever | :: | 2 |
| 1970 | - | The cognitive basis for linguistic structures - Bever | :: | 2 |
| 1976 | - | Interactive models for evolution: Neural mechanisms, anatomy and behavior - Lieberman | :: | 2 |
| 1989 | - | Evolution, selection, and cognition: From "learning" to parameter setting in biology and the study of language - Piattelli-Palmarini | :: | 2 |
| 1983 | - | How to carry out the adaptationist program - Mayr | :: | 2 |
| 1982 | - | The growth of biological thought - Mayr | :: | 2 |
| 1972 | - | Punctuated equilibria: An alternative to phyletic gradualism - Eldredge,Gould | :: | 2 |
| 1977 | - | X-bar syntax: A study of phrase structure - Jackendoff | :: | 2 |
| 1979 | - | Panselectionist pitfalls in Parker & Gibson's model of the evolution of intelligence - Gould | :: | 2 |
| 1983 | - | Cerebral cortices of East African early hominids - Falk | :: | 2 |
| 1986 | - | From simple input to complex grammar - Morgan | :: | 2 |
| 1985 | - | The acquisition of American sign language - Newport,Meier | :: | 2 |
| 1984 | - | Parameters and effects of word order variation - Travis | :: | 2 |
| 1984 | - | The nature of selection - Sober | :: | 1 |
| 1983 | - | Aspects of human evolution - Isaac | :: | 1 |
| 1986 | - | The problems of evolution - Ridley | :: | 1 |
| 1976 | - | The structure of communication in early language development - Greenfield,Smith | :: | 1 |
| 1983 | - | Filling gaps: decision principles and structure in sentence comprehension - Frazier,Clifton,Randall | :: | 1 |
| 1973 | - | Constraints on internal clauses and sentential subjects - Kuno | :: | 1 |
| 1985 | - | Vaulting ambition: Sociobiology and the quest for human nature - Kitcher | :: | 1 |
| 1988 | - | Innateness and plasticity in language acquisition - Maratsos | :: | 1 |
| 1978 | - | Cyclicity and the theory of grammar - Freidin | :: | 1 |
| xxxx | - | On the universality of human nature and the uniqueness of the individual: The role of genetics and adaptation - Tooby,Cosmides | :: | 1 |
| 1981 | - | Return of the hopeful monster - Gould | :: | 1 |
| 1974 | - | The position of relative clauses and conjunctions - Kuno | :: | 1 |
| 1989 | - | Language acquisition - Pinker | :: | 1 |
| 1986 | - | Evidence from the great apes concerning the biological bases of language - Seidenberg | :: | 1 |
| 1982 | - | Lexical Functional Grammar: A formal system for grammatical representations - Kaplan,Bresnan | :: | 1 |
| 1983 | - | Evolution from molecules to men - Bendall | :: | 1 |
| 1964 | - | A biological perspective on language - Lenneberg | :: | 1 |
| 1980 | - | The mental arms race amplifier - Rose | :: | 1 |
| 1979 | - | Signing behavior in apes: A critical review - Seidenberg,Petitto | :: | 1 |
| 1983 | - | How language structures space - Talmy | :: | 1 |
| 1988 | - | Axon guidance and the patterning of neuronal projections in vertebrates - Dodd,Jessell | :: | 1 |
| 1987 | - | Communication, and language: Comment on Savage-Rumbaugh - Seidenberg,Petitto | :: | 1 |
| 1986 | - | Evolution of a mesh between principles of the mind and regularities of the world - Shepard | :: | 1 |
| 1987 | - | Departmental colloquium, Department of Psychology, Harvard University - Greenfield | :: | 1 |
| 1979 | - | The evolution of human sexuality - Symons | :: | 1 |
| xxxx | - | The adapted mind - Barkow,Cosmides,Tooby | :: | 1 |
| 1987 | - | On the autonomy of language and gesture: Evidence from the acquisition of personal pronouns in American Sign Language - Petitto | :: | 1 |
| 1975 | - | Unmasking the face - Ekman,Friesen | :: | 1 |
| 1987 | - | Evolution and cognition - Gould,Piattelli-Palmarini | :: | 1 |
| 1974 | - | The theory of games and the evolution of animal conflicts - Maynard-Smith | :: | 1 |
| 1987 | - | Parsing efficiency, binding, c-command, and learnability - Berwick,Wexler | :: | 1 |
| 1986 | - | The neuropsychology of emotional expression - Etcoff | :: | 1 |
| 1980 | - | Some comments on the neurology of language - Geschwind | :: | 1 |
| 1989 | - | Evolutionary considerations - Gould | :: | 1 |
| 1982 | - | Control and complementation - Bresnan | :: | 1 |
| 1989 | - | Evolutionary psychology and the generation of culture, Part II - Cosmides,Tooby | :: | 1 |
| 1980 | - | Language: the loaded weapon - Bolinger | :: | 1 |
| 1983 | - | Selection in relation to sex - Clutton-Brock | :: | 1 |
| 1982 | - | Darwin to DNA, molecules to humanity - Stebbins | :: | 1 |
| 1977 | - | Darwin's untimely burial - Gould | :: | 1 |
| 1984 | - | Functional analysis - Cummins | :: | 1 |
| 1989 | - | Some biological constraints on universal grammar and learnability - Lieberman | :: | 1 |
| 1981 | - | Is a new evolutionary synthesis necessary - Stebbins,Ayala | :: | 1 |
| 1989 | - | The nature of human concepts: Evidence from an unusual source - Pinker,Prince | :: | 1 |
| xxxx | - | Syntactic distinctions in child language - Bloom | :: | 1 |
| 1982 | - | Grammars as mental representations of language - Bresnan,Kaplan | :: | 1 |
| 1987 | - | Paper presented at the conference "The origin and dispersal of modern humans - Alexander | :: | 1 |
| 1985 | - | Aerodynamics, thermoregulation, and the evolution of insect wings: Differential scaling and evolutionary change - Kingsolver,Koehl | :: | 1 |
| xxxx | - | Language change - Wang | :: | 1 |
| 1985 | - | Review of P - Mehler | :: | 1 |
| 1978 | - | Universals of human language 4 vols - Greenberg,Ferguson,Moravcsik | :: | 1 |
| 1977 | - | Problems of perfection, or how can a clam mount a fish on its rear end - Gould | :: | 1 |
| 1980 | - | Is a new and general theory of evolution emerging - Gould | :: | 1 |
| 1988 | - | The proper treatment of connectionism - Smolensky | :: | 1 |
| 1927 | - | A mathematical theory of natural and artificial selection - Haldane | :: | 1 |
| 1988 | - | Psycholinguistic factors in morphological asymmetry - Hawkins,Cutler | :: | 1 |
| 1986 | - | More than nature needs - Bickerton | :: | 1 |
| 1976 | - | The evolution of intelligence and access to the cognitive unconscious - Rozin | :: | 1 |
| 1985 | - | Generalized phrase structure syntax - Gazdar,Klein,Pullum,Sag | :: | 1 |
| 1982 | - | The tangled wing: Biological constraints on the human spirit - Konner | :: | 1 |
| 1989 | - | Zero-stimulation for parameter setting - Freidin,Quicoli | :: | 1 |
| 1981 | - | The emergence of man in Africa and beyond - Tobias | :: | 1 |
| 1983 | - | Genetic aspects of speech and language disorders: Current status and future directions - Ludlow,Cooper | :: | 1 |
| 1983 | - | Some current issues in the study of the acquisition of grammar - Maratsos | :: | 1 |
| 1985 | - | Language typology and syntactic description - Shopen | :: | 1 |
| 1990 | - | Genetic dysphasia and feature blindness - Gopnik | :: | 1 |
| 1987 | - | Paper presented at the conference "The origin and dispersal of modern humans: Behavioral and biological perspectives - Zubrow | :: | 1 |
| 1989 | - | Nominals in child language - Bloom | :: | 1 |
| 1988 | - | Prospects for the study of language and mind - Chomsky | :: | 1 |
| 1981 | - | An encyclopedia of AUX: A study of cross-linguistic equivalence - Steele,Akmajian,Demers,Jelinek,Kitagawa,Oehrle,Wasow | :: | 1 |
| 1981 | - | The framing of decisions and the psychology of choice - Tversky,Kahneman | :: | 1 |
| 1972 | - | Linguistic evolution - Samuels | :: | 1 |
| xxxx | - | Tales of two sites: The quasimodularity of language - Bever,Carrithers,Cowart,Townsend | :: | 1 |
| 1976 | - | Language and context: studies in the acquisition of pragmatics - Bates | :: | 1 |
| 1987 | - | Integrity and Mr - Gould | :: | 1 |
| 1987 | - | Phylogenetic relations of humans and African apes from DNA sequences in the @g[yh]-globin region] - Miyamoto,Slightom,Goodman | :: | 1 |