ISCA Archive SpeechProsody 2004
ISCA Archive SpeechProsody 2004

Prosody and foreign accent syndrome: a comparison of pre- and post-stroke speech

Jo Verhoeven, Peter Mariën

This paper describes the prosodic characteristics of a female Dutch native speaker with so-called Foreign Accent Syndrome. Although Foreign Accent Syndrome has often been regarded as a speech disorder which is characterized by substantial deviations in intonation patterns, the case of a Dutch-speaking patient is reported whose intonation patterns can be regarded as normal.