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| 2002 | - | Simulating the evolution of language - Cangelosi,Parisi | :: | 88 |
| 2002 | - | Learning, Bottlenecks and the Evolution of Recursive Syntax - Kirby | :: | 86 |
| 2002 | - | The negotiation and acquisition of recursive grammars as a result of competition among exemplars - Batali | :: | 66 |
| 2000 | - | The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Social Function and the Origins of Linguistic Form - Knight,Hurford,Studdert-Kennedy | :: | 33 |
| 2003 | - | Language Evolution: The States of the Art - Christiansen,Kirby | :: | 33 |
| 2003 | - | Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition - Tomasello | :: | 30 |
| 2004 | - | Constructivist Development of Grounded Construction Grammars - Steels | :: | 23 |
| 2005 | - | The emergence of compositional structures in perceptually grounded language games - Vogt | :: | 20 |
| 2003 | - | The structure and function of complex networks - Newman | :: | 18 |
| 1999 | - | Syntax as an emergent characteristic of the evolution of semantic complexity - Schoenemann | :: | 18 |
| 2002 | - | Self-organization and selection in the emergence of vocabulary - Ke,Minett,Au,Wang | :: | 16 |
| 2002 | - | Formulaic language and the lexicon - Wray | :: | 16 |
| 2005 | - | The emergence and evolution of linguistic structure: from lexical to grammatical communication systems - Steels | :: | 12 |
| 2005 | - | On the power-law distribution of language family sizes - Wichmann | :: | 10 |
| 2004 | - | A computational framework to simulate the co-evolution of language and social structure - Gong,Ke,Minett,Wang | :: | 10 |
| 1999 | - | Emergence of scaling in random networks - Barab,Albert | :: | 9 |
| 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 |
| 2006 | - | A language emergence model predicts word order bias - Minett,Gong,Wang | :: | 4 |
| 2005 | - | Explaining Universal Color Categories Through a Constrained Acquisition Process - Belpaeme,Bleys | :: | 4 |
| 2005 | - | Power laws, pareto distributions and Zipf's law - Newman | :: | 4 |
| 1996 | - | How nature works: the science of self-organized criticality - Bak | :: | 3 |
| 1979 | - | Individual differences in second language acquisition - Fillmore | :: | 3 |
| 2002 | - | Geography in a scale-free network model - Warren,Sander,Sokolov | :: | 2 |
| 2005 | - | Network of Syllables in Portuguese - Soares,Corso,Lucena | :: | 2 |
| 2002 | - | The language organ - Anderson,Lightfoot | :: | 2 |
| 2004 | - | Dynamics of rumor spreading in complex networks - Moreno,Nekovee,Pacheco | :: | 2 |
| 2003 | - | Efficiency of scale-free networks: error and attack tolerance - Crucitti,Latora,Marchiori,Rapisarda | :: | 2 |
| 2001 | - | On the inseparability of grammar and the lexicon: evidence from acquisition - Bates,Goodman | :: | 2 |
| 2005 | - | The impact of network topology on disease spread - Shirley,Rushton | :: | 1 |
| 2005 | - | A family-network model for wealth distribution in societies - Coelho,Neda,Ramasco,Santos | :: | 1 |
| 2003 | - | Sexual networks: implications for the transmission of sexually transmitted infections - Liljeros,Edling,Amaral | :: | 1 |