"foreign accent syndrome" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: foreign accent syndromes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} foreign accent syndrome (countable and uncountable, plural foreign accent syndromes)
  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. Tags: countable, uncountable Hypernyms: speech impediment Translations (rare disorder): vieraan murteen syndrooma (Finnish), syndrome de l’accent étranger [masculine] (French), zespół obcego akcentu [masculine] (Polish)

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