13.2688, Media: NYT: Foreign Accent Syndrome

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Subject: 13.2688, Media: NYT: Foreign Accent Syndrome

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Date:  Wed, 16 Oct 2002 17:45:37 +0800
From:  "Karen S. Chung" <karchung at ccms.ntu.edu.tw>
Subject:  Media: NYT: Foreign Accent Syndrome

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Date:  Wed, 16 Oct 2002 17:45:37 +0800
From:  "Karen S. Chung" <karchung at ccms.ntu.edu.tw>
Subject:  Media: NYT: Foreign Accent Syndrome


    The 'Vital Signs' section of the October 15, 2002 New York Times online
has a short piece entitled:

    Complications: After a Stroke, a New Accent
    by John O'Neil

    It begins:

    Some stroke or accident victims lose the ability to produce speech;
others, their ability to understand it. But in an extremely small group, the
brain injuries produce a shift in pronunciation known as foreign accent
syndrome.
    Researchers at Oxford believe they have zeroed in on the brain region
involved in the syndrome, which causes patients' accents to shift suddenly.

    The URL:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/15/health/15CHAN.html?8vd

    You can also link to short 'before' and 'after' recordings of a 'foreign
accent syndrome' victim at:

    http://www.nytimes.com/pages/health/index.html

    A news release from the original source of the research findings, Oxford
University, together with the 'before' and 'after' audio links, can be found
here:

    http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/po/021003.shtml


    Karen Steffen Chung
    karchung at ccms.ntu.edu.tw

    Explore phonetics resources at:
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