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	Accent (linguistics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An accent may be associated with the region in which its speakers reside (a geographical accent), the socio-economic status of its speakers, their ethnicity, their caste or social class, their first language (when the language in which the accent is heard is not their native language), and so on.
		Accent should not be confused with dialect (q.v.), which is a variety of language differing in vocabulary and grammar as well as pronunciation.
		Many speakers choose to live with their foreign accents as long as these are not heavy enough interfere with communication (that is, as long as their accents leave the phonemes of a language clearly distinguishable to native speakers).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Accent_(language) (537 words)

	ipedia.com: Accent (linguistics) Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		An accent is the perceived peculiarities of pronunciation and intonation of a speaker or group of speakers.
		For native speakers, accent is one of the components of a spoken variety, as a dialect.
		A foreign accent is marked by the phonology of other languages (or one other language) which the speaker of an acquired language unconsciously interpret as identical with the phonemes of the spoken language; i.e.
	www.ipedia.com /accent__linguistics_.html (173 words)

	LINGUIST List 8.1510: Foreign Accent Syndrome
		This is typically perceived as a "foreign accent", though listeners are often unable to agree on exactly what foreign accent it is. The person with FAS retains many features of their original accent unchanged, e.g.
		One factor that does recur in several cases of FAS is that those with the syndrome are often very distressed at their change in accent, and often feel (or indeed: are) rejected by what they have hitherto considered their social network.
		An unlearned foreign accent in a patient with aphasia.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~haroldfs/popcult/handouts/accents/foraxsyn.html (824 words)

	FarShores.org Far News: Stroke victims' accent changes baffling experts
		Nowadays her voice is slightly breathy, and sometimes there's a gap in rhythm or grammar that may evoke the sound of a non-native speaker of many languages.
		Scientists who have studied patients with Foreign Accent syndrome have begun to understand the condition better in recent years as brain imaging technology has improved and as the Internet has made it easier to bring scattered research and researchers together, says Jack Ryalls of the University of Central Florida.
		Foreign accent syndrome may involve a lesion somewhere along that network, says Julius Fridriksson, assistant professor of communications sciences and disorders at the University of South Carolina.
	farshores.org /n05sva.htm (888 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Health \| Stroke gives woman British accent
		Her accent is a mixture of English cockney and West Country.
		Doctors are still trying to find out exactly why foreign accent syndrome occurs.
		The first case of foreign accent syndrome was reported in 1941 in Norway, after a young Norwegian woman suffered shrapnel injury to the brain during an air raid.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/health/3235934.stm (439 words)

	Current Science: Funny accent mystery decoded - Health - foreign accent syndrome happens to some people who begin to ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Hasnip suffered from foreign accent syndrome, a rare condition in which people find themselves speaking their own language like someone from a foreign country.
		The woman recovered but was left with a German-sounding accent, to the horror of fellow villagers who shunned her after that.
		When an English woman named Annie recently developed foreign accent syndrome after a stroke, she spoke with what seemed to be a Scottish brogue.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0BFU/is_9_88/ai_95526977 (465 words)

	Foreign accent syndrome: Secrets of sudden break-out unravelled- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		It could be a case of Foreign Accent Syndrome, suggests recent research.
		Indeed, in the bad old days of witch burning, the sudden change of accent could land the victims in serious trouble if they were accused of indulging in the fl arts.
		Their combined effect is to create subtle changes or degradations in a number of vocal features, including pitch, tone and speeding up or slowing down of delivery of syllables, all of which make a patientâs pronunciation sound similar to a foreign accents.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /cms.dll/articleshow?artid=25701789 (579 words)

	TechnoSociety (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Often, the accent is from someplace the sufferer has never been; where they speak a language the sufferer has never spoken.
		According to Reason.com, she gradually improved during the next year until she was “speaking with the same fluency as she had before the stroke.” However, instead of the familiar New York accent she once had, she spoke with a British accent.
		Sufferers of this syndrome begin to realize how important their voice really is. Our way of speaking is a very important part of our personality, and people who have had their voice changed can realize that very quickly.
	www.whimsplace.com /121503/technosociety.htm (571 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Foreign accent syndrome is a speech disorder which leads listeners to perceive the patient as having a foreign accent.
		Speech and MRI changes (showing deep white matter lesions in the corpus callosum, left pariental lobe and left frontal lobe) were consistent with previous reports of foreign accent syndrome.
		This patient's episodes of foreign accent are thought to be due to her MS.
	www.mult-sclerosis.org /news/Jun2004/MedlineForeignAccentSyndromeinWomanwMS.html (139 words)

	UCF clinic diagnoses rare Foreign Accent Syndrome
		The case of Foreign Accent Syndrome - a disorder linked to stroke-related or other internal brain injuries that leaves affected people with a foreign-sounding accent - is one of fewer than 20 reported worldwide since 1919, according to Jack Ryalls, professor of communicative disorders at UCF.
		The first widely known case of Foreign Accent Syndrome reported in English was in 1941, when a Norwegian woman suffered a brain injury after shrapnel hit her head during World War II.
		Ryalls said his research on this and other cases, including Roberts's, suggests the syndrome is associated with damage to the left hemisphere of the brain, where language processing occurs.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2003-11/uocf-ucd111803.php (929 words)

	Foreign accent syndrome sticks to stroke victim \| Arizona Daily Star ®
		Foreign accent syndrome sticks to stroke victim
		Langdon is among only a couple of dozen known cases of people who developed what's been labeled foreign accent syndrome.
		Ryalls has studied post-stroke speech problems for 25 years and saw his first case of foreign accent syndrome 20 years ago.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/106393 (935 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Health \| 'Foreign accent syndrome' explained
		The condition, called "foreign accent syndrome", affects only a tiny number of patients.
		Now researchers at Oxford University have found that patients with "foreign accent syndrome" seem to share certain characteristics which might explain the problem.
		This might explain the combination of subtle changes to vocal features such as lengthening of syllables, altered pitch or mispronounced sounds which make a patient's pronunciation sound similar to a foreign accent.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/health/2300395.stm (348 words)

	LINGUIST List 8.1497: FAS: Foreign Accenet Syndrome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		My students were asking me about a recent case of so-called foreign language syndrome in Scotland, which had apparently featured on news broadcasts.
		It is said that a woman went to sleep a perfectly unexceptionable Scot and awoke "with a perfect South African accent".
		Nick Miller and Helen O'Sullivan 'What makes Foreign Accent Syndrome = Foreign?' - ------------- Presumably trauma to the brain from stroke or head injury results in = articulation which is atypical in such a way that listeners describe the = result as 'sounding foreign'.
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/8/8-1497.html (194 words)

	Foreign Accent Syndrome rare medical probelms
		Technically speaking, Foreign Accent Syndrome is "a rare brain disorder that causes people to speak their native language as if they had a foreign accent." However, I am convinced I must have some variation of Foreign Accent Syndrome, for apparently I do not speak German with an American accent, but a Slavic one.
		Therefore, I shall soon be campaigning to add a second definition to Foreign Accent Syndrome and that is: A cultural or psychological phenomenon that causes a person to speak a foreign language with an accent other than their native accent.
		Yes, Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS) is a genuine phenomenon.
	www.nelsonideas.com /rare-medical-problems/foreign-accent-syndrome.html (2999 words)

	Health in a Heartbeat Radio Script: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Oxford neuropsychologists have found that small lesions in the language-processing left hemisphere of brain that occur after a stroke or head injury are the likely cause of the syndrome.
		Speech changes are characterized not by prior knowledge of a certain foreign tongue but instead by the lengthening of syllables, altered pitch or mispronounced sounds, which change the way someone pronounces words.
		Fortunately, those who develop the syndrome often improve as the brain heals or compensates for the damage.
	www.shands.org /health/heartbeat/Heartbeat_Detail.asp?ID=1795 (216 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Foreign Accent syndrome baffles medical experts
		Langdon is among only a couple of dozen known cases of people who have developed "foreign accent syndrome." In most cases, since the condition was identified more than 80 years ago, their natural voices have been altered by some kind of brain trauma or head injury.
		Scientists who have studied patients with foreign-accent syndrome have begun to understand the condition better in recent years as brain-imaging technology has improved and as the Internet has made it easier to bring scattered research and researchers together, says Jack Ryalls of the University of Central Florida.
		Foreign-accent syndrome may involve a lesion somewhere along that network, says Julius Fridriksson, assistant professor of communications sciences and disorders at the University of South Carolina.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002680321_syndrome13.html (643 words)

	usnews.com: Pulse: New autism initiative; foreign accent syndrome (11/20/03)
		A communication disorders expert has diagnosed this as a rare case of "foreign accent syndrome," his university announced this week.
		One of the early reported cases of the syndrome involved a Norwegian woman, hit in the head by shrapnel during World War ii.
		The accent, apparently, is not amenable to speech therapy.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/health/pulse/archive/pulse031120.htm (584 words)

	Foreign Accent Syndrome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Tiffany Roberts was born and raised in Indiana, but after suffering a stroke several years ago she developed foreign accent syndrome and now speaks with a British accent.
		For more on foreign accent syndrome, check out this old Oxford press release and a related BBC article about the work of John Coleman and Jennifer Gurd.
		But the only thing that's affected by the syndrome is your accent, pronunciation, etc. and sometimes the selection of words you use.
	cognews.com /1070262952/index_html (831 words)

	SP2004 Abstract: Verhoeven / Mariën (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		This paper describes the prosodic characteristics of a female Dutch native speaker with so-called Foreign Accent Syndrome.
		Although Foreign Accent Syndrome has often been regarded as a speech disorder which is characterized by substantial deviations in intonation patterns, the case of a Dutch-speaking patient is reported whose intonation patterns can be regarded as normal.
		Verhoeven, Jo / Mariën, Peter (2004): "Prosody and foreign accent syndrome: a comparison of pre- and post-stroke speech", In SP-2004, 123-126.
	www.isca-speech.org /archive/sp2004/sp04_123.html (112 words)

	USC News - ABC Primetime to feature USC researcher, USC alumnus who suffered stroke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Thursday, April 6, focuses on the rare medical condition, foreign-accent syndrome, that resulted from Stabler's stroke in December 2003.
		Instead, he spoke with a distinct European accent that sounded like French to some and German to others.
		As for the accent, Stabler got his Southern drawl back in about a year.
	uscnews.sc.edu /hlth103.html (350 words)

	Martial Arts Planet - Foreign Language Syndrome
		I'd even put the funny accent mark on it, if my browser would let me. I'm originally from Ann Arbor, but I moved as far south as my money would take me. Unfortunately, that was only as far as Ohio....
		I come from scotland, i wish i had a scots accent, then i could go to america and pull millions of lovely american women(if tv is to be believed) just by saying 'aye'.
		It is impossible not to have an accent, each country (or eaven area) talks differently, and if you go outside that area, they will think you have an accent.
	www.martialartsplanet.com /forums/showthread.php?t=7568 (878 words)

	News - Accent on mysterious
		Now her voice is slightly breathy, and sometimes there's a gap in rhythm or grammar that may sound like a non-native speaker of many languages.
		Scientists who have studied patients with Foreign Accent syndrome have begun to understand the condition better in recent years as brain-imaging technology has improved and as the Internet has made it easier to bring scattered research and researchers together, says Jack Ryalls of the University of Central Florida.
		Foreign Accent syndrome may involve a lesion somewhere in that network, says Julius Fridriksson, assistant professor of communications sciences and disorders at the University of South Carolina.
	www.ocregister.com /ocregister/homepage/abox/article_914924.php (588 words)

	A Welsh View: Foreign Accent Syndrome? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		A Florida woman who suffered a stroke found she had a British accent when she recovered the power of speech.
		Experts have diagnosed Judi Roberts as suffering from "foreign accent syndrome".
		Could it be possible that we might inherit "memory genes" and that is what the brain is referring back to rather than the "learned" accent.
	xo.typepad.com /blog/2003/11/foreign_accent_.html (284 words)

	Woman has accent after stroke
		Nowadays, her voice is slightly breathy, and sometimes there’s a gap in rhythm or grammar that might evoke the sound of a non-native speaker of many languages.
		Although brain researchers used to think language involved discrete regions of the brain, now they theorize it involves a network of neurons crossing and connecting multiple regions.
		Foreign accent syndrome might involve a lesion somewhere along that network, says Julius Fridriksson, assistant professor of communications sciences and disorders at the University of South Carolina.
	www.showmenews.com /2005/Dec/20051218News016.asp (932 words)

	ScienceDaily: University Of Central Florida Clinic Diagnoses Rare Foreign Accent Syndrome
		The case of Foreign Accent Syndrome -- a disorder linked to stroke-related or other internal brain injuries that leaves affected people with a foreign-sounding accent -- is one of fewer than 20 reported worldwide since 1919, according to Jack Ryalls, professor of communicative disorders at UCF.
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	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2003/11/031119075644.htm (1935 words)

	local6.com - Health - Fla. Woman Has Stroke, Gets British Accent
		The case of foreign-accent syndrome is one of fewer than 20 reported worldwide since 1919, according to Jack Ryalls, professor of communicative disorders at UCF.
		But when her speech finally returned, her deep northern accent was gone.
		Ryalls has conducted a series of tests on Roberts and says the syndrome is the only explanation.
	www.local6.com /health/2650224/detail.html (434 words)

	Slashdot \| Head Injury Induces Foreign Accent Syndrome
		Cases of Foreign Accent Syndrome differ with respect to both the cause and the nature of the new accent, which could for example be like Spanish or Dutch in a native speaker of English.
		The kind of accent a patient develops is not dependent on any knowledge of a particular foreign language.
		The first case of Foreign Accent Syndrome was reported in 1941 from Norway, where a young Norwegian woman suffered shrapnel injuries to the brain during an air raid.
	science.slashdot.org /science/03/11/18/2148253.shtml?tid=134 (2753 words)

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