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| 1989 | - | Biological evolution of the Saussurean sign as a component of the language acquisition device - Hurford | :: | 102 |
| 2001 | - | Spontaneous evolution of linguistic structure: an iterated learning model of the emergence of regularity and irregularity - Kirby | :: | 96 |
| 1997 | - | Grounding adaptive language games in robotic agents - Steels,Vogt | :: | 74 |
| 1996 | - | Emergent Adaptive Lexicons - Steels | :: | 56 |
| 2002 | - | Crucial Factors in the Origins of Word-Meaning - Steels,Kaplan,McIntyre,Van~Looveren | :: | 51 |
| 1999 | - | The learning barrier: Moving from innate to learned systems of communication - Oliphant | :: | 42 |
| 1960 | - | Word and object - Quine | :: | 40 |
| 2000 | - | How Children Learn the Meanings of Words - Bloom | :: | 27 |
| 1999 | - | The cultural origins of human cognition - Tomasello | :: | 26 |
| 2003 | - | Investigating social interaction strategies for bootstrapping lexicon development - Vogt,Coumans | :: | 24 |
| 2003 | - | Intelligent Meaning Creation in A Clumpy World Helps Communication - Smith | :: | 20 |
| 2001 | - | Bootstrapping grounded symbols by minimal autonomous robots - Vogt | :: | 19 |
| 2004 | - | A computational framework to simulate the co-evolution of language and social structure - Gong,Ke,Minett,Wang | :: | 10 |
| 2003 | - | THSim v3.2: The Talking Heads simulation tool - Vogt | :: | 8 |
| 2003 | - | Adult reformulations of child errors as negative evidence - Chouinard,Clark | :: | 5 |
| 1999 | - | Early lexical acquisition: The role of cross-situational learning - Akhtar,Montague | :: | 5 |
| xxxx | - | Learning colour words is slow: a cross-situational learning account - Vogt,Smith | :: | 5 |
| 2005 | - | Language evolution in large populations of autonomous agents: issues in scaling - Vogt,Divina | :: | 4 |
| 1967 | - | Nearest neighbor pattern classification - Cover,Hart | :: | 3 |