| 1960 | - | Word and Object - QUINE | :: | 40 |
| 1957 | - | Syntactic Structures - CHOMSKY | :: | 40 |
| 1981 | - | Lectures on Government and Binding - CHOMSKY | :: | 37 |
| 1998 | - | Fitness and the selective adaptation of language - Kirby | :: | 33 |
| 1993 | - | Learning and development in neural networks: The importance of starting small - Elman | :: | 33 |
| 1991 | - | The Evolution of the Critical Period for Language Acquisition - Hurford | :: | 31 |
| 1989 | - | Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and Machine Learning - GOLDBERG | :: | 29 |
| 1987 | - | Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things - LAKOFF | :: | 25 |
| 1967 | - | Biological Foundations of Language - LENNEBERG | :: | 21 |
| 1996 | - | An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms - MITCHELL | :: | 13 |
| 1963 | - | Finitary models of language users - MILLER,CHOMSKY | :: | 11 |
| 1999 | - | Co-Evolution of Language Size and the Critical Period - Hurford,Kirby | :: | 7 |
| 1985 | - | The Acquisition of Syntactic Knowledge - BERWICK | :: | 7 |
| 1986 | - | Working Memory - BADDELEY | :: | 6 |
| 1992 | - | Working memory: the interface between memory and cognition - BADDELEY | :: | 5 |
| 1987 | - | Parameters and learnability in binding theory - WEXLER,MANZINI | :: | 5 |
| 1977 | - | Genie: A Linguistic Study of a Modern day ``Wild Child'' - CURTISS | :: | 5 |
| 1990 | - | Maturational constraints on language development - LONG | :: | 4 |
| 1988 | - | Abnormal language acquisition and the modularity of language - CURTISS | :: | 4 |
| 1993 | - | Working Memory and Language - GATHERCOLE,BADDELEY | :: | 4 |
| 1989 | - | Critical period effects in second language learning: The influence of maturational state on the acquisition of english as a second language - JOHNSON,NEWPORT | :: | 4 |
| 1982 | - | The resilience of recursion: A study of a communication system developed without a conventional language model - GOLDIN-MEADOW | :: | 4 |
| 1997 | - | The neural basis of cognitive development: a constructivist manifesto - QUARTZ,SEJNOWSKI | :: | 3 |
| 1980 | - | The critical period and feral children - CURTISS | :: | 2 |
| 1982 | - | Limitations on input as a basis for neural organization and perceptual development: A preliminary theoretical statement - TURKEWITZ,KENNY | :: | 2 |
| 1993 | - | Modeling the effects of processing limitations on the acquisition of morphology: the less is more hypothesis - GOLDOWSKY,NEWPORT | :: | 2 |
| 1985 | - | The Ontogeny of Information: developmental systems and evolution - OYAMA | :: | 2 |
| 1990 | - | Phonological memory deficits in language-disordered children: Is there a causal connection - GATHERCOLE,BADDELEY | :: | 2 |
| 1984 | - | Constraints on learning: Studies in the acquisition of american sign language - NEWPORT | :: | 2 |
| 1992 | - | The adaptive nature of cognitive immaturity - BJORKLUND,GREEN | :: | 2 |
| 1996 | - | When/why/of what is less more - JOYCE | :: | 2 |
| 1981 | - | Normal acquisition processes explain the critical period for language learning - BEVER | :: | 2 |
| 1996 | - | How embedded memory in recurrent neural net architectures helps learning long-term temporal dependencies - LIN,BILL,GILES | :: | 1 |
| 1973 | - | Some characteristics of pidgin sign english - WOODWARD | :: | 1 |
| 1992 | - | Critical period effects in the acquisition of a primary language: I - NEWPORT,SUPALLA | :: | 1 |
| 1992 | - | Ultimate attainment in second language acquisition - BIRDSONG | :: | 1 |
| 1997 | - | Learning, culture and evolution in the origin of linguistic constraints - KIRBY,HURFORD | :: | 1 |
| 1993 | - | Beyond Natural Selection - WESSON | :: | 1 |
| 1991 | - | Growing neural networks - NOLFI,PARISI | :: | 1 |
| 1981 | - | Ontogenetic adaptation and retrogressive processes in the development of the nervous system and behaviour - OPPENHEIM | :: | 1 |
| 1990 | - | Human memory : theory and practice - BADDELEY | :: | 1 |
| 1988 | - | When long-term learning depends on short-term storage - BADDELEY,PAPAGNO,VALLAR | :: | 1 |
| 1951 | - | Size as a cue to distance - ITTELSON | :: | 1 |
| 1983 | - | Sentence repetition in American Sign Language - MAYBERRY,FISCHER,HATFIELD | :: | 1 |
| 1981 | - | The present status of the innateness controversy - FODOR | :: | 1 |
| 1930 | - | Cutaneous localization in congenitally blind versus seeing children and adults - RENSHAW,WHERRY,NEWLIN | :: | 1 |
| 1978 | - | Infant sensory assessment: Vision - SALAPATEK,BANKS | :: | 1 |
| 1978 | - | Cross-modal transfer in infants: Relationship to prematurity and socioeconomic background - ROSE,GOTTFRIED,BRIDGER | :: | 1 |
| 1965 | - | Visual accommodation in human infants - HAYNES,WHITE,HELD | :: | 1 |
| 1981 | - | The Roots of Human Behaviour: an introduction to the psychobiology of early development - HOFER | :: | 1 |
| 1996 | - | How native is near-native - WHITE,GENESEE | :: | 1 |
| 1995 | - | Handbook of memory disorders - BADDELEY,BARBARA,WATTS | :: | 1 |
| 1980 | - | Development of visual size constancy during the first year of human infancy - MCKENZIE,TOOTELL,DAY | :: | 1 |
| 1979 | - | Sentence comprehension in preschool children: Testing an adaptive egocentrism hypothesis - MOOD | :: | 1 |
| 1979 | - | The concept of the sensitive period in developmental studies - OYAMA | :: | 1 |
| 1890 | - | The Principles of Psychology - JAMES | :: | 1 |
| 1996 | - | The causes and effects of evolutionary simulation in the behavioural sciences - TODD | :: | 1 |