John H. Schumann
List of John Benjamins publications for which John H. Schumann plays a role.
2017 Chapter 3. Neural complexity meets lexical complexity: An issue both in language and in neuroscience Complexity Theory and Language Development: In celebration of Diane Larsen-Freeman, Ortega, Lourdes and ZhaoHong Han (eds.), pp. 59–78 | Chapter
Complexity Theory provides avenues for understanding many aspects of language acquisition and use, including the language neuroscientists use to label the brain and to think about its structure and functions. A major concern for neuroscience has been the mapping of structure to function. The… read more
1999 A neurobiological basis for decision making in language pragmatics Pragmatics & Cognition 7:2, pp. 283–311 | Article
In the nervous system, the orbitofrontal cortex, the amygdala, and the body proper are involved in personal and social decision making. Since normal conversational interaction involves making personal and social decisions on a moment to moment basis about what to say and how to say it, it is… read more
1989 The Experimental Creation of a Pidgin Language Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 4:1, pp. 37–63 | Article
Over the past two years several research projects have been undertaken within the Applied Linguistics Program at UCLA to examine the early stages of pidginization. The idea was to create experimentally a pidgin language by having subjects memorize 250 words of a language they did not know and… read more
1984 Comments on the paper by Givón Language Universals and Second Language Acquisition, Rutherford, William E. (ed.), pp. 137–140 | Article