Foreign Accent syndrome

neurolinguistics aspects in a case report

Authors

  • Maria Cristina de Almeida Freitas Cardos Fonoaudióloga, Doutora em Gerontologia Biomédica, Professora Adjunto II da Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre – UFCSPA, Porto Alegre-RS, Brasil.
  • Michelle Apellanis Borges Fonoaudióloga, graduada na Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre – UFCSPA, Porto Alegre-RS, Brasil.
  • Erica Luciana Martinovski Fonoaudióloga, graduada na Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre – UFCSPA, Porto Alegre-RS, Brasil.
  • Marina Luiza dos Santos Fonoaudióloga, graduada na Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre – UFCSPA, Porto Alegre-RS, Brasil.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.34024/rnc.2014.v22.8108

Keywords:

Linguistics, Language, Neurolinguistic Programming, Phonetics, Speech Language and Hearing Sciences

Abstract

The foreign accent syndrome is central nervous system affection where the ones present accent in the mother language. This study has the aim to describe the neurolinguistics aspects of a person diagnosed as a carrier of foreign accent syndrome. Method. It is a retrospective case report, descriptive and contemporary. The person of this study with 54 years old, female gender, resident of a region of German coloniza­tion in Rio Grande do Sul that had presented an allergic drug reaction event of chemical substance, which provided an anaphylactic shock. Results. She was diagnosed with Foreign Accent Syndrome whose neurolinguistics aspects found were: changes in oral and written ex­pressive language, with presence of anomia; abnormal production of linguistic prosody; verbal fluency with breaks; articulatory disorder; and pneumonic-phonologic-articulatory coordination changed. The particularity of her speech was, having an Italian ancestry, went on to present the German accent characterized by absence of sound in obstructers and fricatives phonemes and the replacement of the velar phoneme /X/ to /r/. Conclusion. In literature the studies related to the syndrome are diverse as the focus aspects, looking for the estab­lishment of their regularities, pursuing the possibility of generaliza­tions to the found clinically.

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2014-01-23

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Vol. 22 No. 2 (2014)

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Cardos MC de AF, Borges MA, Martinovski EL, Santos ML dos. Foreign Accent syndrome: neurolinguistics aspects in a case report. Rev Neurocienc [Internet]. 2014 Jan. 23 [cited 2025 Dec. 17];22(2):300-7. Available from: https://periodicos.unifesp.br/index.php/neurociencias/article/view/8108