An unlearned foreign “accent” in a patient with aphasia

Graff‐Radford, Neill R.; Cooper, William E.; Colsher, Patricia L.; Damásio, António R.

doi:10.1016/0093-934x(86)90093-3

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“…Wendt, Bose, Scheich & Ackermann (2007) observed twice the number of pitch accents in a German speaker with FAS than the matched control speaker, as well as significantly shorter phrasing units. A higher rate of pitch accentuation was also reported by Berthier et al (1991) and Graff-Radford et al (1986). Both studies reported that in some sentences the speakers with FAS accented almost every content word.…”

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“…Frequently reported vocalic errors include alterations in vowel length, i.e. lengthening (Blumstein, Alexander, Ryalls, Katz & Dworetzky, 1987;Graff-Radford, Cooper, Colsher & Damasio, 1986) as well as shortening (Ingram, McCormack & Kennedy, 1992;Perkins, Ryalls, Carson & Whiteside, 2010) and tenseness (e.g. Katz, Garst & Levitt, 2008;Whitaker, 1982).…”

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Intonation in neurogenic foreign accent syndrome

Kuschmann

Lowit

Miller

et al. 2012

Journal of Communication Disorders

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Foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is a motor speech disorder in which changes to segmental as well as suprasegmental aspects lead to the perception of a foreign accent in speech. This paper focuses on one suprasegmental aspect, namely that of intonation. It provides an in-depth analysis of the intonation system of four speakers with FAS with the aim of establishing the intonational changes that have taken place as well as their underlying origin. Using the autosegmental-metrical framework of intonational analysis, four different levels of intonation, i.e. inventory, distribution, realisation and function, were examined in short sentences. Results revealed that the speakers with FAS had the same structural inventory at their disposal as the control speakers, but that they differed from the latter in relation to the distribution, implementation and functional use of their inventory. The current results suggest that these intonational changes cannot be entirely attributed to an underlying intonation deficit but reflect secondary manifestations of physiological constraints affecting speech support systems and compensatory strategies. These findings have implications for the debate surrounding intonational deficits in FAS, advocating a reconsideration of current assumptions regarding the underlying nature of intonation impairment in FAS.

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Intonation in neurogenic foreign accent syndrome

Kuschmann

Lowit

Miller

et al. 2012

Journal of Communication Disorders

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“…Several careful phonetic analyses of patients with FAS have been published to date [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] . They have shown that FAS is primarily a disorder of speech prosody (the melody and rhythm of language), although patients have normal melody in song and affect, differentiating the condition from the aprosodias, which result from non-dominant hemisphere lesions [18] .…”

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“…The latter type of the syndrome is more common. Several careful studies of the phonetic characteristics of the FAS have been published, but the exact pathophysiological mechanisms leading to the development of the syndrome are poorly understood, as are the pathological anatomy and prognosis of the syndrome [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] . We have identifi ed 6 patients with FAS and have reviewed these cases, together with those published in the literature to attempt to identify the key features and evaluate the prognosis of this rare disorder.…”

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Foreign Accent following Brain Injury: Syndrome or Epiphenomenon?

Edwards

Patel²,

Pople³

2005

Eur Neurol

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“…While some studies have described the sudden acquisition of one specific foreign accent [6, 8, 11, 12], others found that different observers who listened to the same patient at different times had different opinions on the origin of the accent (‘pseudoaccent’ or ‘unlearned foreign accent’) [1, 13]. …”

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Different Perceived Foreign Accents in One Patient after Prerolandic Hematoma

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Foreign accent syndrome (FAS), a rare disorder characterized by the emergence of a new accent perceived as foreign by listeners, is usually reported with left brain damage. We here report the case of a 28-year-old native Brazilian who appeared, to the examiner, to show a North American accent during recovery from Broca’s aphasia. The lesion was due to a frontal hematoma. Without referring specifically to speech, we asked 10 independent observers to comment on a videotape of the patient’s interview. Seven reported that the patient had a foreign accent, while 3 simply noted a ‘strange’ accent. The observers did not agree on the origin of the accent, 5 identifying it as Spanish, 1 as German, and 1 as south Brazilian. These findings suggest that FAS is not due to the acquisition of a specific foreign accent, but to impairment of the suprasegmental linguistic abilities (tone, accent, pauses, rhythm, and vocal stress) that make it possible to distinguish native language.

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An unlearned foreign “accent” in a patient with aphasia

Cited by 78 publications

References 8 publications

Intonation in neurogenic foreign accent syndrome

Intonation in neurogenic foreign accent syndrome

Foreign Accent following Brain Injury: Syndrome or Epiphenomenon?

Different Perceived Foreign Accents in One Patient after Prerolandic Hematoma

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