Foreign accent syndrome

All it takes is a small brain injury in the wrong place to immediately give someone a "foreign accent." Wham! all the sudden you have Spanish or French accent and there is nothing you can do about it when it happens but the symptoms usually disappears as other regions of the brain takes over the functions of the injured areas. What causes such a weird phenomenon? A stroke can do it or a brain injury. Although all this can happen, it happens very rarely.

Here are a few links to check:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2300395.stm

http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-2688.html

At this site, you can download a "before" and "after" sound sample of a patient afflicted by the "foreign language syndrome."

http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/po/021003.shtml

For further research, visit the htt://google.com search engine and search for "foreign accent syndrome"  Yes, please put quotation around that ... that will force the google search engine to search for the words exactly as you typed.