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- The roots of language (2016) (1023)
- Language and Species (1990) (812)
- The language bioprogram hypothesis (1984) (685)
- Language and Human Behavior (1996) (492)
- Dynamics of a creole system (1976) (404)
- The Nature of Creole Continuum. (1973) (218)
- Adam's Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans (2009) (214)
- Language evolution: A brief guide for linguists (2007) (171)
- Symbol and Structure: A Comprehensive Framework for Language Evolution (2003) (121)
- Palenquero: A spanish-based creole of northern colombia (1970) (108)
- More Than Nature Needs: Language, Mind, and Evolution (2014) (100)
- Lingua ex Machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the Human Brain (2001) (92)
- Creolization, Linguistic Universals, Natural Semantax and the Brain (1980) (84)
- Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey: Creole languages and the bioprogram (1988) (75)
- The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: How Protolanguage Became Language (2000) (58)
- Confrontational scavenging as a possible source for language and cooperation (2011) (46)
- Pidgin and Creole Studies (1976) (41)
- More than nature needs? A reply to Premack (1986) (39)
- The language bioprogram hypothesis and second language acquisition (1984) (32)
- 'He himself': anaphor, pronoun or...? (1987) (31)
- The Pace of Syntactic Acquisition (1991) (29)
- Language first, then shared intentionality, then a beneficent spiral (2005) (23)
- Some Problems for Biolinguistics (2014) (18)
- The Evolution of Human Language: On two incompatible theories of language evolution (2010) (18)
- The Emergence of Protolanguage: Holophrasis vs compositionality (2010) (17)
- Modes of Interior Monologue a Formal Definition (1967) (16)
- Recursion: Core of complexity or artifact of analysis? (2009) (15)
- Seselwa Serialization and its Significance (1989) (14)
- The Sociohistorical Matrix of Creolization (1992) (14)
- Bastard Tongues: A Trailblazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World's Lowliest Languages (2008) (13)
- Creole is still king (1984) (13)
- Reconsidering Creole Exceptionalism (2004) (12)
- Okay for content words, but what about functional items? (2001) (12)
- Creoles and West African Languages: a Case of Mistaken Identity? (1986) (11)
- On the Supposed "Gradualness" of Creole Development (1991) (11)
- Resolving Discontinuity: A Minimalist Distinction between Human and Non-human Minds1 (2000) (11)
- Beyond the mirror neuron – the smoke neuron? (2005) (10)
- Development and structures of creole languages : essays in honor of Derek Bickerton (1991) (10)
- Putting back the clock in variation studies (1977) (9)
- Subject Focus and Pronouns (1993) (9)
- TWO NEGLECTED FACTORS IN LANGUAGE EVOLUTION (2008) (8)
- Putting cognitive carts before linguistic horses (1993) (8)
- PROLEGOMENA TO A LINGUISTIC THEORY OF METAPHOR (2016) (8)
- The Origins of Saramaccan Syntax: A Reply to John McWhorter's "Substratal Influence in Saramaccan Serial Verb Constructions" (1994) (8)
- The origins of syntactic language (2011) (8)
- The child, the bioprogram and the input data: a commentary on Cziko (1989) (8)
- From Protolanguage to Language (2021) (7)
- Beyond Roots: The Five-Year Test (1986) (7)
- Creoles and the bankruptcy of current acquisition theory (1996) (7)
- Syntax is not as simple as it seems (1991) (6)
- I chat, thereby I groom (1996) (5)
- Language origins and evolutionary plausibility (1991) (5)
- Constructivism, nativism, and explanatory adequacy (1997) (5)
- A dim monocular view of Universal-Grammar access (1996) (5)
- King of the Sea (1979) (5)
- Beyond Roots: Knowing What's What (1987) (5)
- Perspectives on creole language history (1999) (5)
- If it Quacks Like a Duck: A Reply to Seuren (1990) (5)
- 49. Creole Languages (2015) (5)
- 24. The status of bin in the Atlantic creoles (1979) (4)
- A Sociohistoric Examination of Afrogenesis (1998) (4)
- Language use, not language, is what develops in childhood and adolescence (2006) (4)
- But how did protolanguage actually start (2008) (4)
- Les langues créoles (1983) (4)
- An innate language faculty needs neither modularity nor localization (1996) (4)
- Mothering plus vocalization doesn't equal language (2004) (4)
- Response to Balari & Lorenzo (2010) (4)
- Darwin's last word: How words changed cognition (2008) (4)
- A dialog concerning the linguistic status of creole languages (1988) (4)
- Unified cognitive theory: You can't get there from here (1992) (3)
- Language in the modular mind? It’s a no-brainer! (2002) (3)
- ISSUES IN THE QUANTITATIVE APPROACH TO SPEECH RHYTHM COMPARISONS (2009) (3)
- Beyond Roots: Progress or Regress? (1986) (3)
- The supremacy of syntax (1987) (3)
- Where Presuppositions Come From (1979) (3)
- Linguists play catchup with evolution (2001) (3)
- The linguistic validity of verb- nominalising transformations (1969) (3)
- Language evolution without evolution (2003) (3)
- An Afro-Creole Origin for Eena Meena Mina Mo (1982) (3)
- Pidgins and Language Mixture (1999) (3)
- Chattering classes (1996) (2)
- Peter Trudgill, The social differentiation of English in Norwich . (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 13.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974. Pp. X + 211. (1975) (2)
- Haunted by the specter of creole genesis (1991) (2)
- The Cambridge Handbook of Biolinguistics: Language and natural selection (2013) (2)
- “Grammar growth” – what does it really mean? (1986) (2)
- Afferent isn't efferent, and language isn't logic, either. (2003) (2)
- 24. The status ofbinin the Atlantic creoles (1979) (2)
- Finding the true place of Homo habilis in language evolution (1995) (2)
- The creole key to the black box of language (1992) (2)
- The Evolution of Language (2013) (2)
- The origins of variations in Guyanese (1996) (2)
- Broca's demotion does not doom universal grammar (2000) (1)
- On the Thomason-Kaufman Critique of the Bioprogram (1992) (1)
- Ancestors of Meaning (2008) (1)
- Creoles, capitalism, and colonialism (2006) (1)
- 3. Some Problems of Acceptability and Grammaticality in Pidgins and Creoles (1977) (1)
- James Joyce and the Development of Interior Monologue (1968) (1)
- Give syntax a chance (2004) (1)
- Modern Englishes: Pidgins and creoles: Loreto Todd, Oxford, 1984. xv + 289 pp (1986) (1)
- Creoles and West African Languages (1986) (1)
- Apes, Language and the Human Mind. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh , Stuart G. Shanker , Talbot J. Taylor (1999) (1)
- Dig They Must (1999) (1)
- Response to Mufwene (1992) (0)
- Ill Prepared for Revolution (2003) (0)
- EFFECTS OF PHONOTACTIC PROBABILITIES ON SYLLABLE STRUCTURE (2015) (0)
- Letters to Language (2006) (0)
- The acquisition of Mauritian Creole. By Dany Adone (1996) (0)
- CHAPTER 7. Language “Acquisition” (2014) (0)
- The birds, the bees and the Coolidges (1994) (0)
- Un diálogo acerca del "status" lingüístico de las lenguas criollas (1991) (0)
- Maggie Tallerman (ed.), Language origins: perspectives on evolution (Studies in the Evolution of Language 4). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xx+426. (2007) (0)
- Beyond Roots: Lessons from Life (1987) (0)
- CHAPTER 3. The “Specialness” of Humans (2014) (0)
- Quick, Henry, the Flit! (2003) (0)
- Linguistic Anthropology: The Biology and Evolution of Language (1985) (0)
- Review. History in the Text: 'Quatrevingt-Treize' and the French Revolution. Petrey, Sandy (1983) (0)
- Charlene Junko Sato 25 June 1951-28 January 1996 (1996) (0)
- The myth of creole “exceptionalism” (2014) (0)
- The Continuity Paradox (1994) (0)
- THE BIOLOGICAL ENDOWMENT FOR LANGUAGE AND ARGUMENTS FROM THE POVERTY OF THE STIMULUS (2007) (0)
- Recent Publications (1898) (0)
- A Bug's Life (2004) (0)
- CHAPTER 8. Creolization (2014) (0)
- CHAPTER 2. Generative Theory (2014) (0)
- CHAPTER 6. Variation and Change (2014) (0)
- CHAPTER 5. Universal Grammar (2014) (0)
- Creoles – too much too soon? (1984) (0)
- 1 Syntax for Non-syntacticians A Brief Primer (2009) (0)
- Book Reviews -Hoffmann Léon-Francois, J. Michael Dash, Literature and ideology in Haiti 1915-1961. London (2006) (0)
- Recent publications (1877) (0)
- Variation, selection, development: Probing the evolutionary model of language change. Edited by Regine Eckardt, Gerhard Jager, and Tonjes Veenstra (2012) (0)
- The biology of language. Edited by Stanislaw Puppel (1997) (0)
- Forget Memory Loss (1999) (0)
- The snail wars (1993) (0)
- Derek Bickerton in response to John Victor Singler (1999) (0)
- Evolving Language: From Child to Human Species. (2001) (0)
- Derek Bickerton in response to J.L. Dillard (1999) (0)
- Haitian Demographics and Creole Genesis (1990) (0)
- Perspectives on Black English Edited by J. L. Dillard (review) (2015) (0)
- Roger M. Keesing, Melanesian Pidgin and the Oceanic Substrate (1990) (0)
- Adjectives and nominalizations: Zeno Vendler, Papers on Formal Linguistics, No. 5. Mouton, The Hague, 1968. 134 pp. Price: ƒ 18.—. (1970) (0)
- THE APE IN THE ANTHILL (2007) (0)
- The early stages of creolization. Edited by Jacques Arends (1998) (0)
- Language and Evolution (2008) (0)
- Linguistics: Da Kine Talk: From Pidgin to Standard English in Hawaii. ELIZABETH BALL CARR (1974) (0)
- The last of Clever Hans? (1983) (0)
- The talking ape: How language evolved (review) (2008) (0)
- CHAPTER 4. From Animal Communication to Protolanguage (2014) (0)
- Will the real Hawaii Pidgin stand up (1994) (0)
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