Find below a listing of the Top 25 articles published in Language Sciences. Ranking is based on the number of articles accessed/downloaded on  ScienceDirect.

1.  Putting apes (body and language) together again
Cowley, S., Spurrett, D., Volume 25, Issue 3

2.  Whorf meets Wierzbicka: variation and universals in language and thinking
Goddard, C., Volume 25, Issue 4

3.  The native speaker, identity, and the authenticity hierarchy
Myhill, J., Volume 25, Issue 1

4.  Conceptual primes in human languages and their analogues in animal communication and cognition
Wierzbicka, A., Volume 26, Issue 5

5.  Simulating others: the basis of human cognition?
Cowley, S.J., Volume 26, Issue 3

6.  Getting the full picture: a reflection on the work of M.A.K. Halliday
Kilpert, D., Volume 25, Issue 2

7.  Rethinking written culture
Baron, N.S., Volume 26, Issue 1

8.  What's wrong with grammaticalization?
Campbell, L., Volume 23, Issue 2-3

9.  The baby, the bathwater and the ''language instinct'' debate
Cowley, S.J., Volume 23, Issue 1

10.  Introduction: conceptions of grammaticalization and their problems
Campbell, L., Janda, R., Volume 23, Issue 2-3

11.  Idiosyncratic variation in the application of phonological processes in early bilingual acquisition
Schnitzer, M.L., Krasinski, E., Volume 25, Issue 1

12.  Markedness and salience in language contact and second-language acquisition: evidence from a non-canonical contact language
Deumert, A., Volume 25, Issue 6

13.  Cognition and the language myth
Love, N., Volume 26, Issue 6

14.  Innateness, internalism and input: Chomskyan rationalism and its problems
Carr, P., Volume 25, Issue 6

15.  Polysemy's paradoxes
Taylor, J.R., Volume 25, Issue 6

16.  Bringing speakers back in? Epistemological reflections on speaker-oriented explanations of language change
Deumert, A., Volume 25, Issue 1

17.  Approaching modality from the perspective of Relevance Theory
Closs Traugott, E., Volume 25, Issue 6

18.  Deconstructing grammaticalization
Newmeyer, F.J., Volume 23, Issue 2-3

19.  Negotiation of speech style in Japanese women's language: vantage theory as cognitive sociolinguistics
Adachi, N., Volume 24, Issue 5-6

20.  Is there such a thing as ''grammaticalization?"
Joseph, B.D., Volume 23, Issue 2-3

21.  A contrastive pragmatic study on American english and mandarin refusal strategies
Liao, C.-c., Bresnahan, M.I., Volume 18, Issue 3-4

22.  Language constructing language: the implications of reflexivity for linguistic theory
Taylor, T.J., Volume 22, Issue 4

23.  Why has Black English not been standardized? A cross-cultural dialogue on prescriptivism
Myhill, J., Volume 26, Issue 1

24.  Beyond ''pathways'' and ''unidirectionality'': on the discontinuity of language transmission and the counterability of grammaticalization
Janda, R.D., Volume 23, Issue 2-3

25.  Near synonyms as co-extensive categories: 'high' and 'tall' revisited
Taylor, J.R., Volume 25, Issue 3