Off topic: Grandmother goes to bed with migraine and wakes up speaking with a French accent Thread poster: Stéphanie Soudais
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Perhaps she was French?
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| I don't mind having an English accent | Sep 15, 2010 |
I'm Vietnamese and would love to have this 'English Foreign Accent Syndrome' to further my voice-over career as Vietnamese is not much in demand. I won't even seek therapy - waste of money.
Besides, those Vietnamese communists deny my being a native speaker because I'm too 'counterrevolutionary'.
I always love English so much and very much at home with English poetry. 'Revolutionary' Vietnamese poetry must be a product of 'non-poetic' syndrome.
[Edited at 2010-09-15 14:31 GMT]
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Lingua 5B
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| The French accent? | Sep 15, 2010 |
The short portion of speech I've heard from her doesn't sound like French accent at all. They should have brought a linguist-phonologist to confirm this, not a neurologist.
The speech has changed yes, but IMO it's just too much to say it is a French accent when it's not. It sounds like a very specific idiolect.
It's also so sad when people who used language/speech in their profession get speech-related disorders. It reminds me of Beethoven's deafness.
Alth... See more The short portion of speech I've heard from her doesn't sound like French accent at all. They should have brought a linguist-phonologist to confirm this, not a neurologist.
The speech has changed yes, but IMO it's just too much to say it is a French accent when it's not. It sounds like a very specific idiolect.
It's also so sad when people who used language/speech in their profession get speech-related disorders. It reminds me of Beethoven's deafness.
Although many studies confirm language jobs and language exercises are a great prevention against dementia and similar disorders, there have been some professional authors/ writers who suffered Alzheimer's in their old age.
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| | | | | Where to get your information from | Sep 15, 2010 |
Well, the sources are newspapers in both cases, one of them being a tabloid, so it's a pretty safe bet the content is rubbish.
Here's a more reasonable opinion from a neuroscientist:
http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=1903
Basically, foreign language syndrome doesn't exist. Brain damage in the language regions can cause you to develop an accent (no surprises ... See more Well, the sources are newspapers in both cases, one of them being a tabloid, so it's a pretty safe bet the content is rubbish.
Here's a more reasonable opinion from a neuroscientist:
http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=1903
Basically, foreign language syndrome doesn't exist. Brain damage in the language regions can cause you to develop an accent (no surprises there) and that accent can happen to remind people of foreign accents (no surprises there).
Polyglot aphasia (the case of the Croatian girl who forgot Croatian) sounds fascinating, like so many quirky things the brain can do. "Plain" Broca's and Wernicke's aphasia are very interesting too, let alone even rarer situations like this one.
Obviously, the "woke up speaking fluent German miraculously and unexplainably" claim is rubbish, but the "forgot Croatian but not German" bit is true, and, while not unprecedented, it's quite remarkable.
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FarkasAndras wrote:
Well, the sources are newspapers in both cases, one of them being a tabloid, so it's a pretty safe bet the content is rubbish.
It is very likely this woman had a mini stroke in her sleep, but "mysterious migraine" sounds like a much better sell, i.e. like something happening for the first time in the history.
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