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Migraine gives women foreign accent
« on: April 21, 2010, 06:18:05 AM »
Tim Hewage, Sky News Online
A woman from Devon has begun speaking with a Chinese accent after suffering severe migraines.

Thirty-five-year-old Sarah Colwill puts the startling change down to an extremely rare medical condition known as Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS).

"I knew I sounded different but I didn't know how much and people said I sounded a bit Chinese.

"Then I had another attack and when the ambulance crew arrived they said I definitely sounded Chinese."

The rare disorder is thought to be caused by strokes and brain injuries and causes sufferers to lose the ability to talk in their native accent.

There have been an estimated 60 recorded cases of FAS since it was first identified in the 1940s.


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Foreign Accent Syndrome May Be The Reason Why Sarah Colwill Now Speaks With Chinese Accent


Mrs Colwill, who lives in St Budeaux in Plymouth, Devon, with her husband Patrick said her accent change had been startling.

"I spoke to my stepdaughter on the phone from hospital and she didn't recognise who I was.

"She said I sounded Chinese. Since then I have had my friends hanging up on me because they think I'm a hoax caller."

After researching FAS on the internet Mrs Colwill has been in contact with doctors from Oxford University who are interested in studying her plight.

She is undergoing speech therapy to try to revert to her West Country accent.

"I am frustrated to sound like this. I just want my own voice back, but I don't know if I will get it back."

John Coleman, a professor of phonetics at Oxford University, said: "FAS is extremely diverse, almost certainly not 'one thing', not a well-defined medical phenomenon.



"It is not the kind of problem that there are any easy generalisations about."

Sufferers can develop an accent without ever having been exposed to it as it is the change in speech patterns from a brain injury which causes the lengthening of syllables, change in pitch or mispronunciation of sounds.

Experts believe FAS is triggered following a stroke or head injury, when tiny areas of the left side of the brain linked with language, pitch and speech patterns are damaged.

The result is often a drawing out or clipping of the vowels that mimic the accent of a particular country, even though the sufferer may have had limited exposure to that accent.

One of the first reported cases was in 1941 when a Norwegian woman developed a German accent after being hit by bomb shrapnel during an air raid.

As a result, she was shunned by her community, who falsely believed she was a German spy.

In 2006 Linda Walker, 60, woke from a stroke to find that her Geordie accent had been transformed into a Jamaican one.


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Migraine gives women foreign accent
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Re: Migraine gives women foreign accent
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2010, 09:35:26 AM »
Lets induce migraines to get more accents.
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Re: Migraine gives women foreign accent
« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2010, 10:20:58 AM »
I have a migraine every other day. I just curse.
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Re: Migraine gives women foreign accent
« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2010, 11:11:00 AM »
Quote from: KohiNoor on April 21, 2010, 10:20:58 AM
I have a migraine every other day. I just curse.

keda accent?
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Re: Migraine gives women foreign accent
« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2010, 11:41:29 AM »
Quote from: Billu Bakra on April 21, 2010, 11:11:00 AM
keda accent?

accent meri ah..language angrezi.
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Re: Migraine gives women foreign accent
« Reply #5 on: April 21, 2010, 01:13:52 PM »
Quote from: KohiNoor on April 21, 2010, 11:41:29 AM
accent meri ah..language angrezi.
sadqe teri angreezi te  :love:
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Re: Migraine gives women foreign accent
« Reply #6 on: April 21, 2010, 04:26:19 PM »
Quote from: KohiNoor on April 21, 2010, 10:20:58 AM
I have a migraine every other day. I just curse.
is it coz of GS G :pagel: :pagel:?
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Re: Migraine gives women foreign accent
« Reply #7 on: April 21, 2010, 05:15:54 PM »
Quote from: ღкђคภ๔ ๓เรђгเღ on April 21, 2010, 04:26:19 PM
is it coz of GS G :pagel: :pagel:?

Yeah he's a migraine himself. lol
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Re: Migraine gives women foreign accent
« Reply #8 on: April 21, 2010, 07:43:01 PM »
Yeah its very rare case usually happens whenever brain is affected mainly cerbellum and Broca's area mainly responsible for speech production...usually heppens in psychotic patients too...One thing need to be clear that this doesn't mean that patient start speaking foreign langauage just accent changes...what happen actually, because of dengeneration in brain..patient  often dropped consonants, such as "d," from the ends of words (e.g., "fren" for "friend").so it appears likes that they r speaking with different accent...otherwise no other abnormality in this case...
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Re: Migraine gives women foreign accent
« Reply #9 on: April 22, 2010, 02:45:40 AM »
fer vi it sucks i think
imagine waking up wiv some horrible accent
and people thinkin ur jokin
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Re: Migraine gives women foreign accent
« Reply #10 on: April 23, 2010, 10:49:17 AM »
Quote from: KUDRAT GREWAL on April 21, 2010, 07:43:01 PM
Yeah its very rare case usually happens whenever brain is affected mainly cerbellum and Broca's area mainly responsible for speech production...usually heppens in psychotic patients too...One thing need to be clear that this doesn't mean that patient start speaking foreign langauage just accent changes...what happen actually, because of dengeneration in brain..patient  often dropped consonants, such as "d," from the ends of words (e.g., "fren" for "friend").so it appears likes that they r speaking with different accent...otherwise no other abnormality in this case...

wow are you becoming a doctor?
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Re: Migraine gives women foreign accent
« Reply #11 on: April 23, 2010, 02:32:10 PM »
Quote from: Billu Bakra on April 23, 2010, 10:49:17 AM
wow are you becoming a doctor?

naiji...vase ban v sakde aa je PhD kar layea :wait:...par ih ta mein kujh psychology and psychiatry de courses kitte hoye ne othe hi eve de cases vekhe ne...rest thanks fors appreciation...
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