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Foreign Accent and Forensic Speaker Identification in Voice Lineups: The Influence of Acoustic Features Based on Prosody
Published on: September 27, 2024
Short case report: 'Speaking in tongues'--foreign accent syndrome
Dulani Mendis1, Karen Haselden, Declan Costello
1Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, ENT , Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham, B4 6NH , United Kingdom. dulanimendis@yahoo.com
Abstract:
Foreign accent syndrome is a rare dysprosody in which pronunciation of a patient's speech is perceived by same-language listeners as sounding foreign. Sixty cases have been described between 1941 and 2009. It is commonly associated with an acquired brain injury (vascular insult/head injury), but also with psychogenic illness and has been described in two cases as a developmental problem. Here we describe a case secondary to a minor electrocution associated with no evidence of structural brain injury on imaging.
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