8.1497, Disc: FAS: Foreign Accenet Syndrome

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Subject: 8.1497, Disc: FAS: Foreign Accenet Syndrome

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1)
Date:  Thu, 16 Oct 97 13:39:00 PDT
From:  "Crookston, Ian           [HES]" <I.Crookston at lmu.ac.uk>
Subject:  query for submission

2)
Date:  Fri, 17 Oct 1997 16:17:21 +0100
From:  Dr James M Scobbie <j.scobbie at sls.qmced.ac.uk>
Subject:  FOREIGN ACCENT SYNDROME

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Date:  Thu, 16 Oct 97 13:39:00 PDT
From:  "Crookston, Ian           [HES]" <I.Crookston at lmu.ac.uk>
Subject:  query for submission




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". Does anybody have any better
knowledge of this or of similar cases? My suspicion is that the phonetics
has been done by doctors. Or journalists.

Please reply to "i.crookston at lmu.ac.uk", and I'll post a summary.


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Date:  Fri, 17 Oct 1997 16:17:21 +0100
From:  Dr James M Scobbie <j.scobbie at sls.qmced.ac.uk>
Subject:  FOREIGN ACCENT SYNDROME

>>From James M Scobbie and Moray Nairn

There were 2 FAS papers at the 6th Annual Conference of the =
International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association, Nijmegen, =
October 13-15 1997.

Sally Bates, Martin Duckworth and M. Pevalin  'Foreign Accent Syndrome: =
an English Case Study'.
Nick Miller and Helen O'Sullivan 'What makes Foreign Accent Syndrome =
Foreign?'
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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'. Clearly this is a continuum  -  it doesn't =
make any sense to count the number of cases as if there is a clear =
demarcation between foreign-sounding and non-foreign sounding speech =
resulting from such trauma.

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