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The Contribution of Prosody to the Perception of Foreign Accent

Phonetica, 2006
AbstractThe general goal of this study was to expand our understanding of what ismeant by ‘foreign accent’. More specifically, it deals with the role of prosody (timingand melody), which has rarely been examined. New technologies, includingdiphone speech synthesis (experiment 1) and speech manipulation (experiment2), are used to study the relative ...
Philippe Boula de Mareüil, Bianca Vieru-Dimulescu   +1 more
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Foreign accent syndrome and force of articulation [PDF]

Aphasiology, 2014
Background: Foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is a rare, acquired neurogenic disorder characterised by altered speech that sounds foreign, for example, English with a French accent. Several prosodic and acoustic changes have been mentioned in the literature,
Roel Jonkers
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Differences between Foreign Accent Syndrome and Real Foreign Accents.

2011
Foreign accent syndrome FAS) is a motor speech disorder in which patients develop a speech accent which is notably different from their premorbid accent. This paper investigates the perceptual differences between speakers with FAS, speakers with a real foreign accent and a group of control speakers.
Marien, Peter, De Pauw, Guy, Pettinato, M., Hirson, Allen, Jo, Verhoeven   +4 more
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Foreign Accent

2001
Contents: Preface. Preliminaries to Research in Second Language Phonology. Linguistic Explanations for Second Language Phonological Systems. Variation. The Ontogeny Phylogeny Model of Language Acquisition and Change. The Ontogeny Phylogeny Model in Language Contact and Change. Conclusion.
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[Foreign Accent Syndrome].

Brain and nerve = Shinkei kenkyu no shinpo, 2021
Foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is a rare speech disorder characterized by the emergence of a foreign accent. To date, more than a hundred cases of FAS have been reported, and the impression of accent change is regarded to be the result of a combination of segmental deficits (i.e., phonetic distortions and phonemic paraphasias) and supra-segmental ...
Yuichi, Higashiyama, Fumiaki, Tanaka
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Classification of foreign accents

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2011
Regional dialects and foreign accents account for a significant source of between-talker variability. The auditory free classification task—in which listeners freely group talkers based on audio samples—has been a useful tool for examining listeners' cognitive representations of regional dialects (e.g., Clopper and Pisoni, 2007) and was employed here ...
Eriko Atagi, Tessa Bent
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Foreign Accent Syndrome

Neuropraxis, 2010
Sommige neurologische aandoeningen spreken zozeer tot de verbeelding dat ze in de krant een eigen leven gaan leiden. Begin 2010 verschenen in onder andere de Daily Mail en De Telegraaf (27 april 2010) artikelen over een 35-jarige vrouw die na een langdurige migraine-aura een tijdje niet kon spreken en uiteindelijk Engels sprak met een accent dat leek ...
Hylco Bouwstra, Fennetta van der Scheer, Emile Keuter   +2 more
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Accent attribution in foreign accent syndrome

2010
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Jo, Verhoeven, Marien, Peter, Pettinato, M., De Pauw, Guy   +3 more
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Accent Attribution in Speakers with Foreign Accent

2013
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Verhoeven, J, De Pauw, Guy, Pettinato, M., Hirson, Allen, Van Borsel, J., Marien, Peter   +5 more
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Foreign Accent Syndrome

2014
January 4, 2010, started out as just another day for Kay Russell of Gloucestershire, England. The 49-year-old grandmother suffered from severe migraines and later that evening, she went to bed with a debilitating attack. She awoke the next day to discover that she had a French accent (Guardian, 2010).
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