| 1960 | - | Word and object - Quine | :: | 40 |
| 1990 | - | Maturational constraints on language learning - Newport | :: | 17 |
| 2001 | - | Children creating language: how Nicaraguan sign language acquired a spatial grammar - Senghas,Coppola | :: | 16 |
| 1995 | - | Children's contribution to the birth of Nicaraguan Sign Language - Senghas | :: | 5 |
| 1997 | - | Argument structure in Nicaraguan Sign Language: The emergence of grammatical devices - Senghas,Coppola,Newport,Supalla | :: | 4 |
| 1982 | - | The resilience of recursion: A study of a communication system developed without a conventional language model - Goldin-Meadow | :: | 4 |
| 1973 | - | Cognitive prerequisites for the development of grammar - Slobin | :: | 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 |
| 1995 | - | The development of Nicaraguan Sign Language via the language acquisition process - Senghas | :: | 3 |
| 1979 | - | The signs of language - Klima,Bellugi | :: | 3 |
| 1998 | - | Social agency and deaf communities: A Nicaraguan case study - Polich | :: | 1 |
| 1995 | - | The cataclysmic break between gesticulation and sign: Evidence against a unified continuum of gestural communication - Singleton,Goldin-Meadow,McNeill | :: | 1 |
| 1996 | - | Insights to language from the study of gesture: A review of research on the gestural communication of non-signing deaf people - Morford | :: | 1 |
| 1990 | - | Beyond input given: The child's role in the acquisition of language - Goldin-Meadow,Mylander | :: | 1 |
| 1997 | - | An `unspeakable, unwriteable' language: Deaf identity, language & personhood among the first cohorts of Nicaraguan signers - Senghas | :: | 1 |
| 2002 | - | The emergence of grammatical categories in homesign: Evidence from family-based gesture systems in Nicaragua - Coppola | :: | 1 |
| 1995 | - | An implicational hierarchy in verb agreement in American Sign Language - Supalla | :: | 1 |
| 1973 | - | Two processes of reduplicaton in American Sign Language - Fischer | :: | 1 |
| 1987 | - | American Sign Language: Linguistic and applied dimensions - Wilbur | :: | 1 |
| 1982 | - | Structure and acquisition of verbs of motion and location in American Sign Language - Supalla | :: | 1 |
| 1983 | - | Interaction of morphology and syntax in American Sign Language - Padden | :: | 1 |
| 2002 | - | Signs of their times: Deaf communities and the culture of language - Senghas,Monaghan | :: | 1 |
| 2001 | - | Language from the body: Iconicity and metaphor in American Sign Language - Taub | :: | 1 |
| 2003 | - | New ways to be deaf in Nicaragua: Changes in language, personhood, and community - Senghas | :: | 1 |