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| 2003 | - | Iterated Learning: a framework for the emergence of language - Smith,Kirby,Brighton | :: | 34 |
| 2000 | - | The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Social Function and the Origins of Linguistic Form - Knight,Hurford,Studdert-Kennedy | :: | 33 |
| 2003 | - | Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition - Tomasello | :: | 30 |
| 1960 | - | The origin of speech - Hockett | :: | 24 |
| 2004 | - | Constructivist Development of Grounded Construction Grammars - Steels | :: | 23 |
| 2005 | - | The emergence of compositional structures in perceptually grounded language games - Vogt | :: | 20 |
| 2005 | - | Language Acquisition, Change and Emergence: Essays in Evolutionary Linguistics - Minett,Wang | :: | 10 |
| 1977 | - | Evolution and tinkering - Jacob | :: | 9 |
| 2003 | - | First language acquisition - Clark | :: | 8 |
| 2005 | - | Computational modeling on language emergence: A coevolution model of lexicon, syntax and social structure - Gong,Wang | :: | 6 |
| 2005 | - | Coevolution of lexicon and syntax from a simulation perspective - Gong,Minett,Ke,Holland,Wang | :: | 6 |
| 2004 | - | Evolution of Communication Systems: A Comparative Approach - Oller,Griebel | :: | 5 |
| 2005 | - | Syntactic carpentry: an emergentist approach to syntax - O'Grady | :: | 2 |
| 2002 | - | The language organ - Anderson,Lightfoot | :: | 2 |
| 2001 | - | On the inseparability of grammar and the lexicon: evidence from acquisition - Bates,Goodman | :: | 2 |
| 2004 | - | Constructional approaches to language - Fried,Fried | :: | 1 |