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| 1996 | - | Self-organizing vocabularies - Steels | :: | 67 |
| 1998 | - | The origins of syntax in visually grounded robotic agents - Steels | :: | 56 |
| 1996 | - | Perceptually Grounded Meaning Creation - Steels | :: | 47 |
| 2002 | - | Linguistic Evolution through Language Acquisition: Formal and Computational Models - Briscoe | :: | 47 |
| 1982 | - | Evolution and the theory of games - Maynard-Smith | :: | 44 |
| 1981 | - | Lectures on government and binding - Chomsky | :: | 37 |
| 1991 | - | How to Set Parameters: Arguments from Language Change - Lightfoot | :: | 33 |
| 1998 | - | Spontaneous Lexicon Change - Steels,Kaplan | :: | 22 |
| 1999 | - | Situated grounded word semantics - Steels,Kaplan | :: | 22 |
| 1987 | - | Emergent grammar - Hopper | :: | 8 |
| 1999 | - | Approaches to the Evolution of Human Language - Hurford,Knight,Studdert-Kennedy | :: | 3 |
| 1975 | - | Evolution and the diversity of Life - Mayr | :: | 1 |