| 1990 | - | Natural language and natural selection - Pinker,Bloom | :: | 168 |
| 1989 | - | Biological evolution of the Saussurean sign as a component of the language acquisition device - Hurford | :: | 102 |
| 2000 | - | The evolution of syntactic communication - Nowak,Plotkin,Jansen | :: | 81 |
| 2000 | - | Syntax without Natural Selection: How compositionality emerges from vocabulary in a population of learners - Kirby | :: | 81 |
| 2002 | - | The negotiation and acquisition of recursive grammars as a result of competition among exemplars - Batali | :: | 66 |
| 1999 | - | The learning barrier: Moving from innate to learned systems of communication - Oliphant | :: | 42 |
| 1998 | - | Rethinking the language bottleneck: Why don't animals learn to communicate - Oliphant | :: | 8 |
| 1988 | - | On the logic of contrast - Clark | :: | 5 |
| 2000 | - | How Children Learn the Meaning of Words - Bloom | :: | 1 |