Cynthia Core

List of John Benjamins publications in which Cynthia Core is involved.

Articles

Core, Cynthia 2020 Chapter 6. Effects of nonnative input on language abilities in Spanish-English bilinguals Child Bilingualism and Second Language Learning: Multidisciplinary perspectives, Li, Fangfang, Karen E. Pollock and Robbin Gibb (eds.), pp. 87–112 | Chapter

Variations in the quantity and quality of input bilingual children hear account for individual differences in language learning. Some sources of variation in quality of input are related to the parents’ language background (Place & Hoff, 2011; 2016). The parents’ language background determines… read more

Zaretsky, Elena, Jelena Kuvac Kraljevic, Cynthia Core and Mirjana Lencek 2009 Literacy predictors and early reading and spelling skills as a factor of orthography: Cross-linguistic evidence Written Language & Literacy 12:1, pp. 52–81 | Article

The majority view of reading development maintains the importance of specific cognitive and linguistic abilities, e.g. phonological awareness (PA) and vocabulary and verbal working memory (VWM). Another factor in attaining literacy may be the language of exposure, e.g. whether it has a transparent… read more