English Dictionary

foreign accent syndrome

noun

(medicine, psychology, neurology) An extremely rare disorder, which may be temporary or permanent, in which a person who has suffered a stroke or other brain trauma recovers but subsequently speaks with a seemingly foreign accent.

She developed foreign accent syndrome after a brain injury.

意味（1）

(medicine, psychology, neurology) An extremely rare disorder, which may be temporary or permanent, in which a person who has suffered a stroke or other brain trauma recovers but subsequently speaks with a seemingly foreign accent.

A Baltimore man suddenly began speaking with a Scandinavian accent after suffering a stroke. . . . The man had foreign accent syndrome, a rare condition in which a brain malfunction produces speech alterations that sound like a foreign accent.