An American man developed an Irish accent following treatment for metastatic prostate cancer. The man was in his 50s and had never been to Ireland.
Mar 1, 2023
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When people are presented with a moral dilemma in their native language but the words are spoken with a foreign accent, it appears that they make more rational decisions. This was revealed in research that Susanne Brouwer ...
Dec 23, 2021
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Australia is a multicultural society. There are different traditions, cultures, accents and languages all over the country.
Feb 8, 2021
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You are in a strange neighbourhood, your cell phone's dead, and you desperately need to find the closest garage. A couple of people on the street chime in, each sending you in opposite directions. One person sounds like a ...
Sep 18, 2018
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Our brains process foreign-accented speech with better real-time accuracy if we can identify the accent we hear, according to a team of neurolinguists.
Apr 20, 2017
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A new study from City University London has found that foreign accent syndrome, a condition which results in patients to be perceived as non-native speakers of their mother tongue, may be caused by the impaired connections ...
May 4, 2016
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Struggling to understand someone else talking can be a taxing mental activity. A wide range of studies have already documented that individuals with hearing loss or who are listening to degraded speech—for example, over ...
May 18, 2015
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In the past few days, a great deal of media attention has been paid to Leanne Rowe, a Tasmanian woman who has lived eight years with a French accent she acquired after a car accident. This phenomenon is known as foreign accent ...
Jun 20, 2013
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British singer George Michael has revealed that he woke from his three-week coma talking in the broad West Country accent spoken in western England.
Jul 18, 2012
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