Foreign Accent Syndrome
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Foreign Accent Syndrome is a rare and bizarre disorder that sometimes follows strokes or other severe brain injuries. Until 1996, only 15 cases were reported in the medical literature, though many more have come to light in the last decade. Listen to George Reynolds, a Brit who has never been to Italy but came out of a stroke with a distinctly Italian accent. Susan Bowen, an Illinois woman, woke up with a vaguely European drawl. Linda Walker lost her Geordie accent and started talking like a Jamaican (although she sometimes sounds Slovakian, or French Canadian). The Journal of Neurolinguistics recently devoted an entire issue to this unexplained disorder.
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