So-called “foreign accent syndrome“:
That’s common after strokes and head injuries that people would have a speech disorder, but what’s unusual about foreign accent syndrome is that the nature of the changes are heard by listeners as being suggestive of a foreign accent rather than a speech disorder.
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Reminds me of a story. Once in college I was at a party and had been drinking (big surprise). I spent quite a bit of time talking to an attractive girl with a cool foreign accent (German I thought). When I finally drank enough to breach social taboos, I asked about her cool German accent and got the reply “It’s not an accent, I’m deaf” (and a damn fine lip reader)
Did this woman perhpas have a Jamaican care giver while hospitalized?
I realize children’s brains are elastic enough to pick up accents, so perhaps this woman’s injured brain, during recovery, used an “uninjured “part for speech.
Shauna
You can see some really interesting delusional disorders as the result of head injuries. The one’s I’ve seen are so unique I can’t describe them without identifying the patient, but it definitely happens.
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