Accent attribution in speakers with Foreign Accent Syndrome

Verhoeven, Jo; Pauw, Guy De; Pettinato, Michèle; Hirson, Allen; Borsel, John Van; Mariën, Peter

doi:10.1016/j.jcomdis.2013.02.001

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“…The non-native speakers of French were, respectively, of Belgian (Dutch), English, German, and Chinese origin. In accordance with Verhoeven et al’s ( 2013 ) methodology, their foreign accents had not been matched to those the medical staff had tentatively reported in the patient. It was assumed that most listeners would be acquainted with the control speakers’ accents.…”

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“…The aim of the current study is twofold: (1) based on the medical history, the symptoms at presentation, the neurocognitive work-up, as well as the psychodiagnostic and neurolinguistic assessments, we argue that the nature and evolution of the patient’s speech/language symptoms are highly indicative of a psychogenic etiology and (2) we experimentally corroborate the hypothesis of FAS by performing an accent rating and attribution task (Verhoeven et al, 2013 ).…”

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Perceptual Accent Rating and Attribution in Psychogenic FAS: Some Further Evidence Challenging Whitaker’s Operational Definition

Keulen

Verhoeven

Bastiaanse

et al. 2016

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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A 40-year-old, non-aphasic, right-handed, and polyglot (L1: French, L2: Dutch, and L3: English) woman with a 12-year history of addiction to opiates and psychoactive substances, and clear psychiatric problems, presented with a foreign accent of sudden onset in L1. Speech evolved toward a mostly fluent output, despite a stutter-like behavior and a marked grammatical output disorder. The psychogenic etiology of the accent foreignness was construed based on the patient’s complex medical history and psychodiagnostic, neuropsychological, and neurolinguistic assessments. The presence of a foreign accent was affirmed by a perceptual accent rating and attribution experiment. It is argued that this patient provides additional evidence demonstrating the outdatedness of Whitaker’s (1982) definition of foreign accent syndrome, as only one of the four operational criteria was unequivocally applicable to our patient: her accent foreignness was not only recognized by her relatives and the medical staff but also by a group of native French-speaking laymen. However, our patient defied the three remaining criteria, as central nervous system damage could not conclusively be demonstrated, psychodiagnostic assessment raised the hypothesis of a conversion disorder, and the patient was a polyglot whose newly gained accent was associated with a range of foreign languages, which exceeded the ones she spoke.

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Perceptual Accent Rating and Attribution in Psychogenic FAS: Some Further Evidence Challenging Whitaker’s Operational Definition

Keulen

Verhoeven

Bastiaanse

et al. 2016

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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“…Table 1 may be used for this purpose. To be able to interpret and compare cases, it is advised that the foreign accent is clearly described, especially with respect to the segmental and prosodic aspects of the accent, that a group of naive, objective listeners is asked to judge the accent without forced choices and favourably by providing them not only a sample of the foreign accent, but also other speech samples with, for example, secondlanguage learners, as Verhoeven et al (2013) have done and a clear description of the language and articulatory deficits from which a speaker suffers; the ideal situation would be access to the FAS speaker's speech sample, to give all scholars interested in FAS the opportunity to hear the perceived accent themselves.…”

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The common denominator in the perception of accents in cases with foreign accent syndrome

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Background: Foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is a rare speech disorder leading to a perceived presence of a new accent in a speaker's speech. Until now, around 100 cases of FAS have been reported. It is striking that in most cases the perception of the accent is in one consistent direction, namely from languages like English or Dutch to accents of Romance, Germanic, Eastern European or tonal languages. Aims: In this article, we will try to come up with an overarching explanation for the accent changes seen in FAS, relating these changes to force of articulation. Main Contribution: We assume that the foreign accent in FAS is interpreted on the basis of the stereotypical segmental and prosodic characteristics that relate to the phonetics and phonology of specific languages. We hypothesise that the direction in perception of a FAS accent will go from a language characterised by relatively more lenition processes, into languages with relatively more fortition characteristics in their phonetic realisations and phonological system and not the other way around. Accents are expected to change from stress-timed to syllable-timed languages, from weight-sensitive stress systems to weight-insensitive systems, from non-aspirated to aspirated systems, and within these language groups from languages characterised by, for example, relatively more reduction and assimilation processes to languages with relatively less lenition. We have tested our hypothesis with the already described FAS cases. We restricted ourselves to the cases of neurogenic FAS described in English and to which enough details were provided in order to be able to judge the change of accent. Conclusions: From the 58 cases that fitted with these criteria, almost 90% showed a change of accent in the expected direction or did not contradict our hypothesis. Only six accent changes did not directly support it. The reported phonetic descriptions of the cases, if available, nevertheless suggest that they do not seem to completely violate our hypothesis.

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“…Décadas após, foi descrito o primeiro caso de uma entidade denominada Síndrome do Tipo Sotaque Estrangeiro (STSE), com o relato de alteração semelhante atribuída a causa psiquiátrica primária (3) . A SSE Psicogênica foi determinada apenas em 2010, quando foi definida a possibilidade da existência de variante linguística estrangeira em pacientes sem desordem orgânica associada (4) . A descrição da SSE clássica guarda algumas diferenças cruciais quando comparada à SSE psicogênica.…”

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Síndrome Do Sotaque Estrangeiro Psicogênico: Relato De Caso

Bighetti¹,

Ortigoza²,

Chaves³

2017

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Introdução: A Síndrome do Sotaque Estrangeiro (SSE) é uma alteração da parte central do sistema nervoso, cuja manifestação principal é uma afasia que mimetiza foneticamente o sotaque de determinado idioma. Objetivos:Abordar a manifestação dessa síndrome secundária à causa psicogênica. Casuística e Métodos:Este estudo tratará do relato de caso de Síndrome do Sotaque Estrangeiro psicogênica e irá discutir os contrastes com a Síndrome do Sotaque Estrangeiro clássica. Resultados: A paciente deste relato procurou atendimento de saúde em virtude de cefaleia e se apresentou durante o atendimento com sotaque caracteristicamente hispânico, negando qualquer contato prévio com o idioma. Conclusão: Após inúmeros exames e investigação clínica detalhada, a paciente teve como diagnóstico final SSE psicogênica, secundária a Transtorno Dissociativo Misto, entidade pouco descrita e relatada em arquivos e estudos médicos.

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Accent attribution in speakers with Foreign Accent Syndrome

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Perceptual Accent Rating and Attribution in Psychogenic FAS: Some Further Evidence Challenging Whitaker’s Operational Definition

Perceptual Accent Rating and Attribution in Psychogenic FAS: Some Further Evidence Challenging Whitaker’s Operational Definition

The common denominator in the perception of accents in cases with foreign accent syndrome

Síndrome Do Sotaque Estrangeiro Psicogênico: Relato De Caso

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