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| 2002 | - | The Emergence of Linguistic Structure: An overview of the Iterated Learning Model - Kirby,Hurford | :: | 58 |
| 2002 | - | Expression/induction models of language evolution: dimensions and issues - Hurford | :: | 31 |
| 2001 | - | Towards an evolutionary theory of language - Nowak,Komarova | :: | 26 |
| 2003 | - | How the poverty of the stimulus solves the poverty of the stimulus - Zuidema | :: | 18 |
| 2005 | - | Cultural Selection for Learnability: Three principles underlying the view that language adapts to be learnable - Brighton,Kirby,Smith | :: | 13 |
| 2002 | - | On nature and language - Chomsky | :: | 12 |
| 2000 | - | Effects of Compression on Language Evolution - Teal,Taylor | :: | 11 |
| 2002 | - | Computer Simulation: A New Scientific Approach to the Study of Language Evolution - Cangelosi,Parisi | :: | 10 |
| 2003 | - | Simplicity as a Driving Force in Linguistic Evolution - Brighton | :: | 10 |
| 1982 | - | Language acquisition, data compression and generalization - Wolff | :: | 9 |
| 1994 | - | Language acquisition in the MDL framework - Rissanen,Ristad | :: | 5 |
| 2005 | - | Acquisition and evolution of quasi-regular languages: two puzzles for the price of one - Roberts,Onnis,Chater | :: | 1 |