Media: NYT: Foreign Accent Syndrome
| Submitter: |
Karen S. Chung
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| Submitter Email: | karchung@ccms.ntu.edu.tw |
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The 'Vital Signs' section of the October 15, 2002 New York Times online has a short piece entitled: Complications: After a Stroke, a New Accen 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 accen 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@ccms.ntu.edu.tw Explore phonetics resources at: http://ccms.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung Now searchable! </body> |
| Issue Number: | 13.2688 |
| Date Posted: | October 17, 2002 |
