Stroke gives woman foreign accent...from British to Jamaican

Jinx · TOP Guru

RE: Stroke gives woman foreign accent...from British to Jamaican

Lahtina · Foro Master

Very interesting but not at all hard to believe. Afterall, each part of our brain has a different task; some parts are responsible for controlling and coordinating movement, others control behaviour, some our homeostatic functions, etc.

I think you usually hear about people losing control and mobility over certain parts of their body but cases like this also occur and much freakier and weirder ones; it all depends on where the damage occurred during the stroke.

-- Edited by Lahtina at 10:15, 2006-07-06

JOKER_ESCO · Foro Master

YEAH MAN LoL DAMN THAT'S SO CRAZY LoL

Pelon` · Guru

WTF esta jodido eso!

From British to Jamacian

....only if it were reversed then that would be alright

Julie · Comandante

Wowww, that soooooooooooooooooooo

Jaime Cruz · Foro Master

Daeveed wrote:

Imagine waking up with an Argentinian accent???? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Phantasma · TOP Guru

Well she did live in Toronto for 27 years... that'll make anybody sound like a bredthren!

Daeveed · Foro Master

Imagine waking up with an Argentinian accent????

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Bainaman · Foro Master

This is messed up!!!

At least she's alive!

Jaime Cruz · Foro Master

Linda Walker awoke in hospital to find her distinctive Newcastle accent had been transformed into a mixture of Jamaican, Canadian and Slovakian.

The 60-year-old may have Foreign Accent Syndrome, where patients speak differently after a brain injury.

The former university administrator says she hates what has happened to her and now feels like a different person.

Mrs Walker said: "My sister-in-law said that I sounded Italian, then my brother said I sounded Slovakian and someone else said I sounded French Canadian.

"But the latest is that I sound Jamaican, I just don't know how to explain it.

"Everybody is obviously hearing me differently

"I didn't realise what I sounded like, but then my speech therapist played a tape of me talking. I was just devastated."

Researchers at Oxford University have found that patients with Foreign Accent Syndrome have suffered damage to tiny areas of the brain that affect speech.

The result is often a drawing out or clipping of the vowels that mimic the accent of a particular country, such as Spain or France, even though the sufferer has limited exposure to that accent.

The syndrome was first identified during World War II, when a Norwegian woman suffered shrapnel damage to her brain. She developed a strong German accent, which led to her being ostracised by her community.

Click here to see the bomboclot video clip of her speaking Rastas

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/5144300.stm?lsm