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Authoritative: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X08005232   (Publisher's PDF... likely be available here.)

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Abstract

Christiansen & Chater (C&C) focus solely on general-purpose cognitive processes in their elegant conceptualization of language evolution. However, numerous developmental facts attested in L1 acquisition confound C&C's subsequent claim that the logical problem of language acquisition now plausibly recapitulates that of language evolution. I argue that language acquisition should be viewed instead as a multi-layered construction involving the interplay of general and domain-specific learning mechanisms.

@article{satterfield08BBScomments,
  author={Teresa Satterfield},
  title={Language acquisition recapitulates language evolution?},
  journal={Behavioral and Brain Sciences},
  year={2008},
  volume={31},
  number={5},
  pages={532-533},
  doi={10.1017/S0140525X08005232},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/satterfield08BBScomments.html}
}