Brain Impairment Causes Foreign Accent Syndrome

This woman from Washington went to the chiropractor and lost her voice for two days. After regaining it, she had a foreign accent.
G-barsays...

interesting... However, is it possible for her to "work" on her accent? lets say, for instance, that she goes to accent classes and develop her accent back? can she pretend to have an accent?

gwiz665says...

It's not actually an accent, because it's probably psychologically based.

She has not left her tiny little town and always wanted to, when she had her trauma, her repressed wishes bubbled forth and made her foreign in her own mind - she's heard of the accents on tv or the internet, and coagulates the bits and pieces into words and a whole language. The "gibberish" she talks once in a while are because her memories of the languages she imitates are garbled, most likely because she didn't understand it. That's why it's accent-like, instead of a different language.

So it's both bullshit and not.

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