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Via the #BBC
21-year-old #Jersey athlete says he is determined to make a full recovery after a stroke left him speaking with a #French accent.
#JackAllan was sparring in mixed martial arts at university in the #UK when a kick to the jaw caused a bleed on his brain.
It was two weeks before he was able to talk and when he did, he had a French accent.
On his return to Jersey, Mr Allan's speech therapist diagnosed him with #ForeignAccentSyndrome.
Experience: ‘I woke up with a Welsh accent’ | Life and style | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/24/experience-i-woke-up-with-a-welsh-accent
This story about a cancer patient developing an "uncontrollable Irish accent" 👀 has the great benefit of commentary from Prof. Sophie Scott at the end:
"The accent's in our ears. The accent's not one consistent thing that's happened in their brain."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64671894 #neuroscience #accents #speech #language #ForeignAccentSyndrome
'Foreign accent syndrome' is apparently a real, if rare, neurological disorder. I suppose that the phonological processes in the brain have been altered, so that it isn't about someone 'adopting' a foreign accent but rather that the qualities of the produced sounds seem to hearers to adhere more closely to a different phonological system.
#phonology #IrishAccent #ForeignAccentSyndrome
BBC News - US cancer patient developed 'uncontrollable' Irish accent
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64671894
A Man's Prostate Cancer Gave Him An 'Uncontrollable' Irish Accent
https://gizmodo.com/prostate-cancer-caused-irish-accent-medical-case-1850088239
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