Foreign Accent Syndrome
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CORE DEFINITION
After brain injury, a patient's speech prosody and articulation change, causing them to sound as if they have a foreign accent (e.g., a British person suddenly sounding German). This is not actually learning a foreign language, but rather a fine-tuning error in articulatory motor control.
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Phonetic reconstruction of identity. Accent is a core label of our identity. This condition shows that this core label is actually very fragile; a minor neurological damage can turn a person into a 'stranger'. In cross-cultural communication, do not judge by appearance (or accent).
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Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS) is a rare neurological symptom where, after brain injury, patients speak with a foreign accent, resulting from damage to the neural circuits involved in speech motor control. It reveals the dependence of language production on the motor system.
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