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T1 Editorial: Language beyond Words: The Neuroscience of Accent
A1 Moreno-Torres, Ignacio
A1 Marien, Peter
A1 Davila, Guadalupe
A1 Berthier, Marcelo L.
K1 accent
K1 foreign accent syndrome
K1 neuroscience
K1 psychiatric disorders
K1 neuroimaging
AB Speakers differ not only in the number of languages they master, but also in the accents they impart. Indeed, accent is an essential component of our identity to the extent that in many cases our social adscription to specific groups and our judgements about others are based on accent. The relevance of accent was often dismissed by many linguists for a large part of the twentieth century. However, today it is widely acknowledged that spoken language does not exist without an accent. There are, however, some circumstances under which speakers are unable to modulate accent properly. In fact, many late learners of a second language are unable to acquire the native-like accent in the new language, and some individuals with discrete brain lesions in the speech production network or neuropsychiatric problems may change or lose their regional accent or acquire a peculiar accent, which gives raise to what we know as foreign accent syndrome (FAS)
PB Frontiers Research Foundation
SN 1662-5161
YR 2016
FD 2016-12-20
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10668/19233
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10668/19233
LA en
NO Moreno-Torres I, Mariën P, Dávila G, Berthier ML. Editorial: Language beyond Words: The Neuroscience of Accent. Front Hum Neurosci. 2016 Dec 20;10:639.
DS RISalud
RD Sep 14, 2025