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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 ]
Her doctors suspect she may be suffering from a rare neurological condition called “foreign accent syndrome,” which can happen after traumatic brain injuries.
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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The former singer was diagnosed with Foreign Accent Syndrome, a condition that affects around 100 people worldwide
A PubMed search for "Foreign accent syndrome" certainly points in the direction of this being physical, rather than psychological, in nature. -- Anon. Presumably, one would think, the foreign accent would have to be one with which the patient already has a certain degree of familiarity.
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 ...
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