From Ontogenesis to Phylogenesis: What Can Child Language Tell Us About Language Evolution
Slobin, Dan I
Biology and Knowledge, J Langer, S. T. Parker, C. Milbrath (2004)
Dan Slobin examines (and refutes) the hypothesis that child language serves as a good parallel to the evolution of language in proto-hominids. A very well written paper that makes frequent comparisons to the classical version of the recapitulationist argument.