Perception of foreign accent syndrome speech and its relation to segmental characteristics.

Foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is an acquired neurogenic disorder characterized by altered speech that sounds foreign-accented. This study presents a British subject perceived to speak with an Italian (or Greek) accent after a brainstem (pontine) stroke. Native English listeners rated the strength of...

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Publicado en:Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics Vol. 25; no. 2; pp. 85 - 121
Autores principales: Dankoviččováá J, Hunt C
Formato: case study research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Feb2011
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          Foreign Accent Syndrome Symptoms
          Speech Perception
          Stroke Patients
          Phonetics
          Human
          Correlational Studies
          Multimethod Studies
          Speech Acoustics
          Vowels
          Accents and Dialects Italy
          Italy
          Accents and Dialects Greece
          Greece
          Speech Sample
          Case Studies
          Comparative Studies
          Consonants
          Voice Onset Time
          Self Assessment
          Male
          Middle Age
          United Kingdom
          Experimental Studies
          Audiorecording
          Analysis of Variance
          Correlation Coefficient
          Voice Quality
          Pearson's Correlation Coefficient
          Middle Aged: 45-64 years
          Male
      ab: Foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is an acquired neurogenic disorder characterized by altered speech that sounds foreign-accented. This study presents a British subject perceived to speak with an Italian (or Greek) accent after a brainstem (pontine) stroke. Native English listeners rated the strength of foreign accent and impairment they perceived in speech of the FAS subject, alongside that of two native English speakers and Italian, Greek, and French L2 speakers acting as controls. The FAS subject was perceived to be as foreign-sounding as the L2 control speakers, but was also perceived as mildly impaired. The FAS subject's own perception of accents was also explored and it was found that his ability to distinguish presence and absence of accent does not seem to be affected. The relationship between listeners' perceptions and features of the FAS speech is explored via correlational statistics and qualitative analysis. Impressionistic phonetic analysis, supplemented by acoustic analysis, confirmed a number of features consistent with a typical Italian (and also Greek) accent and the Italian and Greek L2 speakers. A pre-stroke and a post-stroke sample from the FAS subject were compared and the nature of post-stroke changes in segmental realizations is discussed.
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