foreign accent syndrome

foreign accent syndrome

English

Noun

foreign accent syndrome (plural foreign accent syndromes)

1. (medicine, psychology, neurology) An extremely rare disorder, which may be temporary or permanent, in which a person who has suffered a stroke or other brain trauma recovers but subsequently speaks with a seemingly foreign accent.
   • 1991, Gerard L. Ervin, "MLJ News & Notes of the Profession," The Modern Language Journal, vol. 75, no. 2, p. 225,

     A Baltimore man suddenly began speaking with a Scandinavian accent after suffering a stroke. . . . The man had "foreign accent syndrome," a rare condition in which a brain malfunction produces speech alterations that sound like a foreign accent.

Hypernyms

• speech impediment

Translations

rare disorder

Finnish: vieraan murteen syndrooma