| 1997 | - | The synthetic modeling of language origins - Steels | :: | 107 |
| 1994 | - | The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language - Pinker | :: | 96 |
| 1990 | - | The Symbol Grounding Problem - Harnad | :: | 65 |
| 1996 | - | Self-organizing vocabularies - Steels | :: | 61 |
| 1998 | - | The origins of syntax in visually grounded robotic agents - Steels | :: | 48 |
| 1999 | - | The development of language: Acquisition, change and evolution - Lightfoot | :: | 38 |
| 1987 | - | Foundations of cognitive grammar: Theoretical Prerequisites - Langacker | :: | 32 |
| 1991 | - | How to Set Parameters: Arguments from Language Change - Lightfoot | :: | 31 |
| 1993 | - | Learning and development in neural networks: The importance of starting small - Elman | :: | 30 |
| 1997 | - | Constructing and sharing perceptual distinctions - Steels | :: | 29 |
| 2001 | - | Language games for autonomous robots - Steels | :: | 27 |
| 1999 | - | The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition - Tomasello | :: | 26 |
| 1975 | - | Reflections on Language - Chomsky | :: | 25 |
| 2001 | - | AIBO's first words: The social learning of language and meaning - Steels,Kaplan | :: | 23 |
| 1996 | - | Rethinking Innateness: A connectionist perspective on development - Elman,Bates,Johnson,Karmiloff-Smith,Parisi,Plunkett | :: | 17 |
| 1994 | - | The artificial life route to artificial intelligence: Building Situated Embodied Agents - Steels,Brooks | :: | 15 |
| 1994 | - | Principles of Linguistic Change - Labov | :: | 14 |
| 1987 | - | The principle of contrast: A constraint on language acquisition - Clark | :: | 13 |
| 1983 | - | The modularity of mind - Fodor | :: | 9 |
| 2001 | - | Language acquisition and conceptual development - Bowerman,Levinson | :: | 7 |
| 1997 | - | Cognitive Foundations of Grammar - Heine | :: | 6 |
| 1991 | - | Approaches to Grammaticalization - Traugott,Heine | :: | 6 |
| 2001 | - | How Domain-General Processes may create Domain-Specific Biases - Smith | :: | 3 |
| 1995 | - | Mindblindness: An Essay on Autism and Theory of Mind - Baron-Cohen | :: | 3 |
| 1984 | - | Learning How to Mean - Halliday | :: | 3 |
| 2000 | - | Visual Event Classification Through Force Dynamics - Siskind | :: | 2 |
| 1994 | - | When it is better to receive than to give: syntactic and conceptual constraints on vocabulary growth - Fischer,Hall,Rakowitz,Gleitman | :: | 2 |
| 1998 | - | Reinforcement Learning - Sutton,Barto | :: | 2 |
| 2000 | - | Models of Language Acquisition - Broeder,Murre | :: | 2 |
| 1992 | - | Semantics, Culture and Cognition - Wierzbicka | :: | 1 |
| 1999 | - | Color categories in a stone-age tribe - Davidoff,Davies,Roberson | :: | 1 |
| 1993 | - | The Theory of Principles and Parameters - Chomsky,Lasnik | :: | 1 |
| 1990 | - | Acts of Meaning - Bruner | :: | 1 |
| 2000 | - | Kinship verbs - Evans | :: | 1 |