| 2005 | - | The Faculty of Language: What's Special about it? - Pinker,Jackendoff | :: | 25 |
| 2006 | - | The Computational Nature of Language Learning and Evolution - Niyogi | :: | 18 |
| 2004 | - | Children Creating Core Properties of Language: Evidence from an Emerging Sign Language in Nicaragua - Senghas,Kita,Ozyurek | :: | 12 |
| 2003 | - | Bifurcation Analysis of the Fully Symmetric Language Dynamical Equation - Mitchener | :: | 8 |
| 2004 | - | Win-stay, lose-shift in language learning from peers - Matsen,Nowak | :: | 8 |
| 2005 | - | On the acquisition and evolution of compositional languages: Sparse input and the productive creativity of children - Vogt | :: | 7 |
| 2005 | - | The role of population structure in language evolution - Lee,Collier,Taylor,Stabler | :: | 5 |
| 2005 | - | Regularizing Unpredictable Variation: The Roles of Adult and Child Learners in Language Formation and Change - Hudson-Kam,Newport | :: | 5 |
| 2007 | - | Iterated learning: Intergenerational knowledge transmission reveals inductive biases - Kalish,Griffiths,Lewandowsky | :: | 5 |
| 2006 | - | Language and life history: A new perspective on the development and evolution of human language - Locke,Bogin | :: | 3 |
| 2003 | - | Intergenerational influence and ontogenetic development in the emergence of spatial grammar in Nicaraguan Sign Language - Senghas | :: | 3 |
| 2003 | - | A Mathematical Model of Human Languages: The Interaction of Game Dynamics and Learning Processes - Mitchener | :: | 2 |
| 2005 | - | The Evolution of Language: A Comparative Review - Fitch | :: | 2 |
| 2008 | - | What do creoles and pidgins tell us about the evolution of languages? - Mufwene | :: | |
| 2005 | - | Watching language grow - Goldin-Meadow | :: | |
| xxxx | - | Universals and the diachronic life cycle of languages - Hurford | :: | |