| 2002 | - | Learning, Bottlenecks and the Evolution of Recursive Syntax - Kirby | :: | 86 |
| 2002 | - | Crucial Factors in the Origins of Word-Meaning - Steels,Kaplan,McIntyre,Van~Looveren | :: | 51 |
| 1996 | - | Perceptually Grounded Meaning Creation - Steels | :: | 47 |
| 1996 | - | A computational study of cross-situational techniques for learning word-to-meaning mappings - Siskind | :: | 24 |
| 2003 | - | Intelligent Meaning Creation in A Clumpy World Helps Communication - Smith | :: | 20 |
| 2001 | - | Bootstrapping grounded symbols by minimal autonomous robots - Vogt | :: | 19 |
| 2003 | - | Least effort and the origins of scaling in human language - Ferrer-i-Cancho,Sole | :: | 19 |
| 2004 | - | The evolution of vocabulary - Smith | :: | 17 |
| 1949 | - | Human Behaviour and the Principle of Least Effort: An Introduction to Human Ecology - Zipf | :: | 10 |
| 2000 | - | Conceptual Spaces - Gardenfors | :: | 8 |
| 2003 | - | THSim v3.2: The Talking Heads simulation tool - Vogt | :: | 8 |
| 1957 | - | Some effects of intermittent silence - Miller | :: | 6 |
| 1978 | - | Principles of categorization - Rosch | :: | 6 |
| 1967 | - | Nearest neighbour pattern classification - Cover,Hart | :: | 4 |
| 2003 | - | Grounded lexicon formation without explicit meaning transfer: who's talking to who - Vogt | :: | 2 |
| 2003 | - | Modelling Zipfian Distributions in Language - Tullo,Hurford | :: | 2 |
| 1953 | - | An information theory of the statistical structure of language - Mandelbrot | :: | 1 |
| 1996 | - | Zipf's law and the effect of ranking on probability distributions - Gunther,Levitin,Schapiro,Wagner | :: | 1 |
| 2004 | - | Generalisation as a bias toward the emergence of Zipf's law - Vogt | :: | 1 |
| 1992 | - | Random texts exhibit Zipf's law like word frequency distributions - Li | :: | 1 |
| 2004 | - | Quantifying lexicon acquisition under uncertainty - Vogt,Smith | :: | 1 |