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| 1997 | - | The synthetic modeling of language origins - Steels | :: | 123 |
| 1998 | - | Computational simulations of the emergence of grammar - Batali | :: | 99 |
| 2002 | - | Learning, Bottlenecks and the Evolution of Recursive Syntax - Kirby | :: | 86 |
| 1999 | - | Function, Selection and Innateness: the Emergence of Language Universals - Kirby | :: | 76 |
| 1997 | - | Learning, culture and evolution in the origin of linguistic constraints - Kirby,Hurford | :: | 54 |
| 2000 | - | Social transmission favours linguistic generalization - Hurford | :: | 34 |
| 1986 | - | Knowledge of Language - Chomsky | :: | 23 |
| 1998 | - | Language as a Complex Adaptive System: Coevolution of Language and of the Language Acquisition Device - Briscoe | :: | 15 |
| 1998 | - | Rethinking the language bottleneck: Why don't animals learn to communicate - Oliphant | :: | 8 |
| 1997 | - | Populations of Learners: The Case of European Portuguese - Niyogi,Berwick | :: | 4 |