Despite its provenance and raucous formulations Tom Wolfe's
The Kingdom of Speech is a treatise to be reckoned with.
A recent review in Books of the Times will get you started:
Tom Wolfe’s ‘The Kingdom of Speech’ Takes Aim at Darwin and Chomsky.
And should you care to try to wrap your mind around the subject a New Yorker article by John Colapinto is a good place to start:
The Interpreter : Has a remote Amazonian tribe upended our understanding of language?EDITAnd this is the May 2014 article on
The Mystery of Language Evolution that moved Wolfe to run amok.