What makes acquired foreign accent syndrome foreign?

“…These are common in apraxia of speech (Kent & Rosenbek, 1982, 1983. Although there was no clear indication of the presence of apraxia in the current FAS group, this possibility should be considered nonetheless, given the reported association of FAS with features of apraxia of speech (Ackermann, Hertrich, & Ziegler, 1993;Coelho & Robb, 2001;Mariën et al, 2006Mariën et al, , 2009Miller et al, 2006;Varley & Whiteside, 2001;Whiteside & Varley, 1998).…”

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confidence: 79%

“…It is thus unclear whether the changes at the level of intonation reflect features of a core impairment or compensatory strategies to deal with impairment in another speech aspect. However, distinguishing between both types of features has the potential to determine the intonational aspects that are indeed compromised in FAS (Miller, Lowit & O"Sullivan, 2006). There is thus a gap in the literature between the recognised relevance of intonational changes in defining FAS on the one hand, and the efforts undertaken to determine the underlying nature of these alterations on the other.…”

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confidence: 99%

Intonation in neurogenic foreign accent syndrome

Kuschmann

Lowit

Miller

et al. 2012

Journal of Communication Disorders

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Foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is a motor speech disorder in which changes to segmental as well as suprasegmental aspects lead to the perception of a foreign accent in speech. This paper focuses on one suprasegmental aspect, namely that of intonation. It provides an in-depth analysis of the intonation system of four speakers with FAS with the aim of establishing the intonational changes that have taken place as well as their underlying origin. Using the autosegmental-metrical framework of intonational analysis, four different levels of intonation, i.e. inventory, distribution, realisation and function, were examined in short sentences. Results revealed that the speakers with FAS had the same structural inventory at their disposal as the control speakers, but that they differed from the latter in relation to the distribution, implementation and functional use of their inventory. The current results suggest that these intonational changes cannot be entirely attributed to an underlying intonation deficit but reflect secondary manifestations of physiological constraints affecting speech support systems and compensatory strategies. These findings have implications for the debate surrounding intonational deficits in FAS, advocating a reconsideration of current assumptions regarding the underlying nature of intonation impairment in FAS.

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“…FAS speech sounds generally foreign and any specific accent that is heard is assumed to depend on the experience listeners have had with foreign accents. Miller, Lowit & Sullivan (2006) point out that "Typically, accents heard are those within the experience of a listener or speech community. Parisians hear Alsatian; listeners in England hear a change to Welsh, Scots, French; Australians hear a Chinese/Japanese accent; a German accent is heard during the time of German occupation in Norway.…”

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confidence: 99%