| 1997 | - | The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain - Deacon | :: | 142 |
| 1998 | - | Computational simulations of the emergence of grammar - Batali | :: | 99 |
| 2000 | - | Syntax without Natural Selection: How compositionality emerges from vocabulary in a population of learners - Kirby | :: | 81 |
| 1994 | - | Innate biases and critical periods: Combining evolution and learning in the acquisition of syntax - Batali | :: | 46 |
| 1968 | - | Language and Mind - Chomsky | :: | 42 |
| 1995 | - | Learning and morphological change - Hare,Elman | :: | 41 |
| 1998 | - | Fitness and the selective adaptation of language - Kirby | :: | 33 |
| 1993 | - | Learning and development in neural networks: The importance of starting small - Elman | :: | 33 |
| 1996 | - | Rethinking Innateness: A Connectionist Perspective on Development - Elman,Bates,Johnson,Karmiloff-Smith,Parisi,Plunkett | :: | 19 |
| 1998 | - | A paradox of neural encoders and decoders, or, why don't we talk backwards? - Tonkes,Blair,Wiles | :: | 3 |
| xxxx | - | Language as an organism - Christiansen | :: | 1 |