| 1960 | - | Word and object - Quine | :: | 40 |
| 1987 | - | Women, fire, and dangerous things - Lakoff | :: | 25 |
| 1989 | - | Learnability and Cognition: The acquisition of Argument Structure - Pinker | :: | 22 |
| 1989 | - | Categorization and naming in children: Problems of induction - Markman | :: | 21 |
| 1984 | - | Language Learnability and Language Development - Pinker | :: | 21 |
| 1975 | - | The language of thought - Fodor | :: | 19 |
| 1987 | - | The principle of contrast: A constraint on language acquisition - Clark | :: | 18 |
| 1980 | - | Metaphors we live by - Lakoff,Johnson | :: | 10 |
| 1983 | - | Semantics and cognition - Jackendoff | :: | 7 |
| 1990 | - | Semantic structures - Jackendoff | :: | 6 |
| 1978 | - | The child as word learner - Carey | :: | 6 |
| 1992 | - | Naive physics, event perception, lexical semantics, and language acquisition - Siskind | :: | 6 |
| 1990 | - | The structural sources of verb meanings - Gleitman | :: | 4 |
| 1995 | - | Grounding language in perception - Siskind | :: | 3 |
| 1985 | - | The child language data exchange system - MacWhinney,Snow | :: | 3 |
| 1995 | - | Models of word segmentation in fluent maternal speech to infants - Aslin,Woodward,LaMendola,Bever | :: | 2 |
| 1992 | - | The acquisition of lexical semantics for spatial terms: A connectionist model of perceptual categorization - Regier | :: | 2 |
| 1990 | - | Miniature language acquisition: A touchstone for cognitive science - Feldman,Lakoff,Stolcke,Weber | :: | 2 |
| 1993 | - | Infants' preference for the predominant stress patterns of English words - Jusczyk,Cutler,Redanz | :: | 2 |
| 1981 | - | Form, function, and the language acquisition device - Grimshaw | :: | 2 |
| 1991 | - | WordNet: A lexical database organized on psycholinguistic principles - Beckwith,Fellbaum,Gross,Miller | :: | 2 |
| 1983 | - | Child's talk - Bruner | :: | 2 |
| 1994 | - | When it is better to receive than to give: Syntactic and conceptual constraints on vocabulary growth - Fisher,Hall,Rakowitz,Gleitman | :: | 2 |
| 1983 | - | Learning word meanings from examples - Berwick | :: | 2 |
| 1994 | - | Do infants perceive word boundaries - Christophe,Dupoux,Bertoncini,Mehler | :: | 2 |
| 1988 | - | Acquiring lexical knowledge from text: A case study - Jacobs,Zernik | :: | 2 |
| 1983 | - | A language-specific comprehension strategy - Cutler,Cutler,Segui | :: | 1 |
| 1994 | - | Natural communication with mobih, robots - Torrance | :: | 1 |
| 1985 | - | Juncture detection - Norris,Cutler | :: | 1 |
| 1989 | - | On defining motion verbs and spatial prepositions - Hays | :: | 1 |
| 1949 | - | Human behavior and the principle qf least effort - Zipf | :: | 1 |
| 1972 | - | English verbs of motion: A case study in semantics and lexical memory - Miller | :: | 1 |
| 1979 | - | Complement selection and the lexicon - Grimshaw | :: | 1 |
| 1994 | - | Algebraic learning of statistical association for language acquisition - Tishby,Gorin | :: | 1 |
| 1977 | - | FOUL-UP: A program that figures out meanings of words from context - Granger,Granger | :: | 1 |
| 1992 | - | Constraint Satisfaction - Mackworth | :: | 1 |
| 1987 | - | Linear logic - Girard | :: | 1 |
| 1977 | - | The development of conversation between mothers and babies - Snow | :: | 1 |
| 1992 | - | Using sound to solve syntactic problems: The role of phonology in grammatical category assignment - Kelly | :: | 1 |
| 1969 | - | Towards a semantic description of English - Leech | :: | 1 |
| 1991 | - | Dispelling myths about language bootstrapping - Siskind | :: | 1 |
| 1990 | - | Acquiring core meanings of words, represented as Jackendoff-style conceptual structures, from correlated streams of linguistic and non-linguistic input - Siskind | :: | 1 |
| 1983 | - | The mother of Eve - As a first language teacher - Moerk | :: | 1 |
| 1986 | - | The meaning makers: Children learning language and using language to learn - Wells | :: | 1 |
| 1970 | - | Three reasons for not deriving kill from cause to die - Fodor | :: | 1 |
| 1974 | - | The semantics of children's language - Suppes | :: | 1 |
| 1993 | - | Solving a lexical acquisition task via an encoding as a propositional satisfiability problem - Siskind | :: | 1 |
| 1965 | - | A machine-oriented logic based on the resolution principle - Robinson | :: | 1 |
| 1979 | - | SUPP: Understanding moving picture patterns based on linguistic knowledge - Okada | :: | 1 |
| 1980 | - | Why we don't talk "baby talk" to babies - Kaye | :: | 1 |
| 1973 | - | The fourteen primitive actions and their inferences - Schank | :: | 1 |
| 1987 | - | The predominance of strong initial syllables in the English vocabulary - Cutler,Canner | :: | 1 |
| 1976 | - | Everyday caretaker talk to toddlers vs - Schachter,Fosha,Schachter,Ganger | :: | 1 |
| 1996 | - | Distributional regularity and phonotactic constraints are useful for segmentation - Brent,Cannwright | :: | 1 |
| 1985 | - | Event calculus - Borchardt | :: | 1 |
| 1989 | - | The acquisition of non-basic sentences - Beckwith,Tinkler,Bloom | :: | 1 |
| 1980 | - | Developmental differences in the acquisition of basic and superordinate categories - Horton,Markman | :: | 1 |