This is not that disturbing, but it is unusual…woman has stroke and ends up with Italian accent…
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Certainly an interesting phenomenon.
Cleveland Clinic
Foreign Accent Syndrome:
Foreign accent syndrome is a brain-related condition that affects your ability to make sounds correctly. Despite the name, it isn’t an accent change at all. FAS is a legitimate medical condition, and while it’s rare, experts have confirmed over 100 cases. Some causes are detectable. It’s often treatable and may even be reversible.
Foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is a condition where the way you talk shifts and changes in a way that’s sudden and very noticeable. As the name suggests, it sounds to others like you’ve started talking with a foreign accent. FAS may indicate something is disrupting your brain function.
Types of foreign accent syndrome:
There are two main types of foreign accent syndrome.
Structural: FAS can happen when there’s damage to areas of your brain that control muscles you use to speak.
Functional: This is FAS that develops without a cause that healthcare providers can find. It may occur after seizures or with migraines, or it may be linked to mental health conditions that involve disorganized activity or hyperactivity in certain brain areas. Healthcare providers sometimes call this “psychogenic” FAS, meaning the cause isn’t structural.
There are also two other possible subtypes:
Mixed. This means that you have functional FAS and also have a structural abnormality that doesn’t seem to be associated with the FAS.
Developmental. This is FAS that can happen in people who are neurodivergent. This type of FAS may happen because of brain development and activity differences.
Sound changes vs. accent changes:
Difficulty controlling different parts of your mouth can significantly change what you sound like. Those changes are more likely to stand out when listeners aren’t familiar with (or expecting) the way you make or use certain sounds.
However, FAS involves sound changes that aren’t consistent with an accent. For example, accents that replace the “r” in “car” with an “ah” sound still say the “r” in words like “carriage.” Someone with FAS (especially the structural type) will likely still not make that “r” sound. That means their speech won’t exactly match with the accent it’s similar to.
Cleveland Clinic
Foreign Accent Syndrome:
Foreign accent syndrome is a brain-related condition that affects your ability to make sounds correctly. Despite the name, it isn’t an accent change at all. FAS is a legitimate medical condition, and while it’s rare, experts have confirmed over 100 cases. Some causes are detectable. It’s often treatable and may even be reversible.
Foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is a condition where the way you talk shifts and changes in a way that’s sudden and very noticeable. As the name suggests, it sounds to others like you’ve started talking with a foreign accent. FAS may indicate something is disrupting your brain function.
Types of foreign accent syndrome:
There are two main types of foreign accent syndrome.
Structural: FAS can happen when there’s damage to areas of your brain that control muscles you use to speak.
Functional: This is FAS that develops without a cause that healthcare providers can find. It may occur after seizures or with migraines, or it may be linked to mental health conditions that involve disorganized activity or hyperactivity in certain brain areas. Healthcare providers sometimes call this “psychogenic” FAS, meaning the cause isn’t structural.
There are also two other possible subtypes:
Mixed. This means that you have functional FAS and also have a structural abnormality that doesn’t seem to be associated with the FAS.
Developmental. This is FAS that can happen in people who are neurodivergent. This type of FAS may happen because of brain development and activity differences.
Sound changes vs. accent changes:
Difficulty controlling different parts of your mouth can significantly change what you sound like. Those changes are more likely to stand out when listeners aren’t familiar with (or expecting) the way you make or use certain sounds.
However, FAS involves sound changes that aren’t consistent with an accent. For example, accents that replace the “r” in “car” with an “ah” sound still say the “r” in words like “carriage.” Someone with FAS (especially the structural type) will likely still not make that “r” sound. That means their speech won’t exactly match with the accent it’s similar to.
bijouxbroussard · F
@OlderSometimesWiser This sounds logical.
@bijouxbroussard Plus the Cleveland Clinic is one of the best medical centers in the country so I’d have no problem trusting what they say.