Italian Language Acquisition and International Adoption
There is part of the children’s population who experiences, in the language-acquisition field, an unparalleled and unique phenomenon: they are youngsters who arrive in Italy through international adoption. When they arrive, they are effectively legal citizens. However, at first Italian appears to be...
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| description | There is part of the children’s population who experiences, in the language-acquisition field, an unparalleled and unique phenomenon: they are youngsters who arrive in Italy through international adoption. When they arrive, they are effectively legal citizens. However, at first Italian appears to be a foreign language which, gradually, is going to become a second language and, eventually, is going to turn into a second mother tongue. This process is extremely fast but it is also painful even because, along the way, the biological mother tongue is notched and replaced by the new adopted language. Often, these youngsters display to have linguistic and communicative disorders caused, on the one hand, by the pre-adoptive conditions and, on the other hand, by the urgency to organize the new language. It is a peculiar and evocative process which entails the intersection of bonds, languages and cultural worlds which are normally distant and divergent. The choice of adoption – with its permanent traits – challenges the family, the siblings and the newcomer. Several studies have already deepened the psychological consequences which an adoption may imply, but little is known about the linguistic-communicative aspects. This publication aims to approach the linguistic and acquisitional data of the adoptive experience, in relation to the primary mother tongue and the new-secondary mother tongue. A field research, conducted in the province of Mantua, allowed us to hand out a questionnaire, to the adoptive parents, regarding the linguistic process which has affected their children once they have come in contact with our language. A reasoned vocabulary of the linguistic terms related to adoption supplies additional and operational information to teachers, educators and parents |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1776932026-06-17T05:28:26Z Italian Language Acquisition and International Adoption Freddi, Egidio Bilingualism Child Language International Adoption Italian Language Acquisition Language Development thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DS Southern Europe::1DST Italy thema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2A Indo-European languages::2AD Romance, Italic and Rhaeto-Romanic languages::2ADT Italian thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFD Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics::CFDC Language acquisition thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFD Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics::CFDM Bilingualism and multilingualism There is part of the children’s population who experiences, in the language-acquisition field, an unparalleled and unique phenomenon: they are youngsters who arrive in Italy through international adoption. When they arrive, they are effectively legal citizens. However, at first Italian appears to be a foreign language which, gradually, is going to become a second language and, eventually, is going to turn into a second mother tongue. This process is extremely fast but it is also painful even because, along the way, the biological mother tongue is notched and replaced by the new adopted language. Often, these youngsters display to have linguistic and communicative disorders caused, on the one hand, by the pre-adoptive conditions and, on the other hand, by the urgency to organize the new language. It is a peculiar and evocative process which entails the intersection of bonds, languages and cultural worlds which are normally distant and divergent. The choice of adoption – with its permanent traits – challenges the family, the siblings and the newcomer. Several studies have already deepened the psychological consequences which an adoption may imply, but little is known about the linguistic-communicative aspects. This publication aims to approach the linguistic and acquisitional data of the adoptive experience, in relation to the primary mother tongue and the new-secondary mother tongue. A field research, conducted in the province of Mantua, allowed us to hand out a questionnaire, to the adoptive parents, regarding the linguistic process which has affected their children once they have come in contact with our language. A reasoned vocabulary of the linguistic terms related to adoption supplies additional and operational information to teachers, educators and parents 2026-06-17T05:28:25Z 2026-06-17T05:28:25Z 2026-06-16T19:22:15Z 2015 book 2610-9557 https://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-020-4/ https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/114107 9788869690075 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/177693 ita SAIL open access image/jpeg https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/114107/4/9788869690075.pdf Edizioni Ca’ Foscari – Venice University Press 10.14277/978-88-6969-007-5 10.14277/978-88-6969-007-5 9788869690075 Edizioni Ca’ Foscari – Venice University Press None Venice, Italy open access |
| spellingShingle | Bilingualism Child Language International Adoption Italian Language Acquisition Language Development thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DS Southern Europe::1DST Italy thema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2A Indo-European languages::2AD Romance, Italic and Rhaeto-Romanic languages::2ADT Italian thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFD Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics::CFDC Language acquisition thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFD Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics::CFDM Bilingualism and multilingualism Freddi, Egidio Italian Language Acquisition and International Adoption |
| title | Italian Language Acquisition and International Adoption |
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| title_fullStr | Italian Language Acquisition and International Adoption |
| title_full_unstemmed | Italian Language Acquisition and International Adoption |
| title_short | Italian Language Acquisition and International Adoption |
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| topic | Bilingualism Child Language International Adoption Italian Language Acquisition Language Development thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DS Southern Europe::1DST Italy thema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2A Indo-European languages::2AD Romance, Italic and Rhaeto-Romanic languages::2ADT Italian thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFD Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics::CFDC Language acquisition thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFD Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics::CFDM Bilingualism and multilingualism |
| topic_facet | Bilingualism Child Language International Adoption Italian Language Acquisition Language Development thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DS Southern Europe::1DST Italy thema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2A Indo-European languages::2AD Romance, Italic and Rhaeto-Romanic languages::2ADT Italian thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFD Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics::CFDC Language acquisition thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFD Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics::CFDM Bilingualism and multilingualism |
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