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Accent attribution in speakers with Foreign Accent Syndrome [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Communication Disorders, 2013
The main aim of this experiment was to investigate the perception of Foreign Accent Syndrome in comparison to speakers with an authentic foreign accent.Three groups of listeners attributed accents to conversational speech samples of 5 FAS speakers which were embedded amongst those of 5 speakers with a real foreign accent and 5 native speaker controls ...
Peter Marien   +2 more
exaly   +6 more sources

War feels less horrid in a foreign accent: exploring the impact of the foreign accent on emotionality [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Language Sciences
IntroductionThe processing of a foreign accent is known to increase cognitive load for the native listener, establish psychological distance with the foreign-accented speaker, and even influence decision-making.
Luca Bazzi   +4 more
doaj   +6 more sources

Psychogenic Foreign Accent Syndrome: A New Case [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2016
This paper presents the case of a 33-year-old, right-handed, French-speaking Belgian lady who was involved in a car accident as a pedestrian. Six months after the incident she developed a German/Flemish-like accent.
Roel Jonkers   +2 more
exaly   +9 more sources

Intonation in neurogenic foreign accent syndrome [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
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.
Miller, Nick   +7 more
core   +4 more sources

Foreign accent syndrome: A typological overview [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS) is a motor speech disorder which causes patients to speak their native language with an accent different from speakers belonging to the same language community: the patient lacks the ability to make the phonemic and phonetic contrasts of his/her native language and demonstrates suprasegmental alterations which cause ...
Keulen, Stefanie   +3 more
core   +8 more sources

Would you respect a norm if it sounds foreign? Foreign-accented speech affects decision-making processes.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2022
Does listening to a foreign-accented speaker bias native speakers' behavior? We investigated whether the accent, i.e., a foreign accent versus a native accent, in which a social norm is presented affects native speakers' decision to respect the norm ...
Luca Bazzi   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Is There a Foreign Accent Effect on Moral Judgment?

open access: yesBrain Sciences, 2021
Recent studies have shown that people make more utilitarian decisions when dealing with a moral dilemma in a foreign language than in their native language.
Alice Foucart, Susanne Brouwer
doaj   +1 more source

Accent rating of vocoded foreign-accented speech by native listeners [PDF]

open access: yesJASA Express Letters, 2023
This study examined accent rating of speech samples collected from 12 Mandarin-accented English talkers and two native English talkers. The speech samples were processed with noise- and tone-vocoders at 1, 2, 4, 8, and 16 channels.
Jing Yang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Voice disguise and foreign accent: Prosodic aspects of English produced by Bra-zilian Portuguese speakers

open access: yesEstudios de Fonética Experimental, 2023
This study aims to explore how much a speaker of English as a foreign language can mask one’s accent by performing voice disguise toward a native-like accent, and what implications it might bring forward. For the Methods, we conducted three experiments,
Leônidas Silva Jr., Plínio A. Barbosa
doaj   +1 more source

Characterizing intonation deficit in motor speech disorders : an autosegmental-metrical analysis of spontaneous speech in hypokinetic dysarthria, ataxic dysarthria and foreign accent syndrome [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The autosegmental-metrical (AM) framework represents an established methodology for intonational analysis in unimpaired speaker populations but has found little application in describing intonation in motor speech disorders (MSDs).
Lowit, Anja, Kuschmann, Anja
core   +4 more sources

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