| 1990 | - | Natural language and natural selection - Pinker,Bloom | :: | 168 |
| 1997 | - | The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain - Deacon | :: | 142 |
| 1989 | - | The Selfish Gene - Dawkins | :: | 54 |
| 1995 | - | The Minimalist Program - Chomsky | :: | 38 |
| 1896 | - | A new factor in evolution - Baldwin | :: | 37 |
| 1993 | - | Learning and development in neural networks: The importance of starting small - Elman | :: | 33 |
| 1991 | - | How to Set Parameters: Arguments from Language Change - Lightfoot | :: | 33 |
| 1987 | - | How learning can guide evolution - Hinton,Nowlan | :: | 31 |
| 1980 | - | Formal Principles of Language Acquisition - Wexler,Culicover | :: | 30 |
| 1984 | - | The Language Bioprogram Hypothesis - Bickerton | :: | 30 |
| 1987 | - | Language and Number: the emergence of a cognitive system - Hurford | :: | 26 |
| 1994 | - | A Performance Theory of Order and Constituency - Hawkins | :: | 21 |
| 1994 | - | On language change: The invisible hand in language - Keller | :: | 21 |
| 1982 | - | The Extended Phenotype - Dawkins | :: | 17 |
| 1991 | - | Coevolution, Genes, Culture and Human Diversity - Durham | :: | 16 |
| 1966 | - | Some universals of grammar with particular reference to the order of meaningful elements - Greenberg | :: | 15 |
| 1981 | - | Government and Binding - Chomsky | :: | 13 |
| 1997 | - | Competing motivations and emergence: explaining implicational hierarchies - Kirby | :: | 13 |
| 1993 | - | The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution - Kauffman | :: | 12 |
| 1991 | - | Interactions between learning and evolution - Ackley,Littman | :: | 11 |
| 1992 | - | The selection of syntactic knowledge - Clark | :: | 11 |
| 1995 | - | Without Miracles: Universal Selection Theory and the Second Darwinian Revolution - Cziko | :: | 10 |
| 1997 | - | The Rise and Fall of Languages - Dixon | :: | 9 |
| 1997 | - | Co-evolution of Language and of the Language Acquisition Device - Briscoe | :: | 9 |
| 1983 | - | Universal Darwinism - Dawkins | :: | 8 |
| 1996 | - | Advances in the computational study of language acquisition - Brent | :: | 8 |
| 1997 | - | Language Acquisition: the Bioprogram Hypothesis and the Baldwin Effect - Briscoe | :: | 8 |
| 1975 | - | The Evolution of an Evolutionist - Waddington | :: | 8 |
| 1994 | - | Impairments of tense in a familial language disorder - Gopnik | :: | 7 |
| 1996 | - | The formal properties of synchronous CCGs - Hoffman | :: | 7 |
| 1871 | - | The descent of Man - Darwin | :: | 7 |
| 1991 | - | The convergence of mildly contextsensitive grammar formalisms - Joshi,Vijay-Shanker,Weir | :: | 7 |
| 1996 | - | Function, Selection and Innateness: the Emergence of Language Universals - Kirby | :: | 6 |
| 1993 | - | The Theory of Evolution - Maynard-Smith | :: | 5 |
| 1988 | - | Combinators and grammars - Steedman | :: | 5 |
| 1983 | - | How many possible human languages are there? - Pullum | :: | 5 |
| 1992 | - | Working Memory: the interface between memory and cognition - Baddeley | :: | 5 |
| 1986 | - | Basic Word Order: Functional Principles - Tomlin | :: | 5 |
| 1996 | - | Order-independent typed default unification - Lascarides,Copestake | :: | 5 |
| 1995 | - | The Computational Analysis of the Syntax and Interpretation of `Free' Word Order in Turkish - Hoffman | :: | 5 |
| 1996 | - | Surface Structure and Interpretation - Steedman | :: | 4 |
| 1993 | - | Categorial Grammars - Wood | :: | 4 |
| 1994 | - | A processing model of free word order languages - Rambow,Joshi | :: | 4 |
| 1988 | - | Abnormal language acquisition and the modularity of language - Curtiss | :: | 4 |
| 1987 | - | Modelling Human Speech Comprehension: A Computational Approach - Briscoe | :: | 4 |
| 1993 | - | The puzzle of the persistent question marks: a case study of genetic drift - Harvey | :: | 4 |
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| 1995 | - | Order-independent and persistent default unification - Lascarides,Briscoe,Copestake,Asher | :: | 4 |
| 1987 | - | Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behaviour - Richards | :: | 3 |
| 1996 | - | On the use of triggers in parameter setting - Frank,Kipur | :: | 3 |
| 1993 | - | Echoing emergence: objectives, rough definitions and speculations for echo-class models - Holland | :: | 3 |
| 1991 | - | Linguistic modularity? A case study of a `savant - Smith,Tsimpli | :: | 3 |
| 1983 | - | Coevolution - Futuyma,Slatkin | :: | 3 |
| 1985 | - | Evidence against the non-context-freeness of natural language - Shieber | :: | 3 |
| 1995 | - | A markov language learning model for finite parameter spaces - Niyogi,Berwick | :: | 3 |
| 1995 | - | Epigenetic Inheritance and Evolution - Jablonka,Lamb | :: | 3 |
| 1991 | - | Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, Simon and Schuster - Dennett | :: | 3 |
| 1997 | - | Landmarks in Linguistic Thought - Harris,Taylor | :: | 2 |
| 1997 | - | Lifelines: Biology - Rose | :: | 2 |
| 1988 | - | Applicability of indexed grammars to natural languages - Gazdar | :: | 2 |
| 1995 | - | Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspective - Harris,Campbell | :: | 2 |
| 1991 | - | A Computational Theory of Human Linguistic Processing: Memory Limitations and Processing Breakdown - Gibson | :: | 2 |
| 1983 | - | The theory of coevolution - Roughgarden | :: | 2 |
| 1995 | - | Maturation and learnability in parametric systems - Bertolo | :: | 2 |
| 1981 | - | Languages with object before subject: a comment and a catalogue - Pullum | :: | 2 |
| 1994 | - | Complexification: Explaining a Paradoxical World through the Science of Surprise - Casti | :: | 1 |
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