| 2001 | - | The Ecology of Language Evolution - Mufwene | :: | 10 |
| 1972 | - | Sociolinguistic Patterns - Labov | :: | 8 |
| 2001 | - | Musical syntax is processed in Broca's area: an MEG study - Maess,Koelsch,Gunter,Friederici | :: | 5 |
| 2001 | - | Language change; Progress or decay - Aitchison | :: | 4 |
| 1994 | - | The quark and the jaguar - Gell-Mann | :: | 3 |
| 1993 | - | Language comprehension in ape and child - Savage-Rumbaugh | :: | 3 |
| 2002 | - | Infant sensitivity to distributional information can affect phonetic discrimination - Maye,Werker,Gerken | :: | 2 |
| 2005 | - | The differential contribution of phonological and distributional cues in grammatical categorisation - Monaghan,Chater,Christiansen | :: | 2 |
| 2005 | - | Functional aspects of song learning in songbirds - Beecher,Brenowitz | :: | 2 |
| 2003 | - | Different origins of symbols and grammar - Tomasello | :: | 2 |
| 2000 | - | Explaining language change - Croft | :: | 2 |
| 2003 | - | Phonetic diversity, statistical learning and acquisition of phonology - Pierrehumbert | :: | 2 |
| 2001 | - | A general account of selection: biology, immunology and behavior - Hull,Langman,Glenn | :: | 1 |
| 2000 | - | What does it take to learn a word - Hollich,Hirsh-Pasek,Hollich,Golinkoff | :: | 1 |
| 2003 | - | Archaeological evidence - Davidson | :: | 1 |
| 1990 | - | How to do things with junk: exaptation in language change - Lass | :: | 1 |
| 1979 | - | Can an ape create a sentence - Terrace,Petito,Sanders,Bever | :: | 1 |