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In 2016, a Texas woman, Lisa Alamia, was diagnosed with foreign accent syndrome when, following a jaw surgery, she developed what sounded like a British accent. [ 49 ] [ 50 ] Ellen Spencer, a woman from Indiana who has foreign accent syndrome, was interviewed on the American public radio show Snap Judgment . [ 51 ]
“It’s very sad. Everything is different, even my body language is different,” she said. “People aren’t meeting the original me, I don’t know who I am.”
Dysprosody, which may manifest as pseudo-foreign accent syndrome, refers to a disorder in which one or more of the prosodic functions are either compromised or eliminated. [ 1 ] Prosody refers to the variations in melody, intonation , pauses, stresses, intensity, vocal quality, and accents of speech. [ 2 ]
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An Asian Australian woman who woke up with an Irish accent after undergoing surgery has been struggling to get her original accent back. How it happened: Angie Yen, who lives in Brisbane ...
In the 1990s, dialect coaches became significant in the film industry as more filmmakers began employing them to train actors to speak in accents. The Los Angeles Times described the general training approach, "It's a process that involves repetition, studying audio- and videotapes, visits to locations where the characters live, along with breathing and vocal exercises."
The Texan actress says she didn't bother going back to her American twang until filming wrapped on 'Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy'
Foreign accent may refer to: accent (sociolinguistics) diacritic, an accent mark in writing; non-native pronunciations of English; Anglophone pronunciation of foreign languages; foreign accent syndrome