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Stroke, Vol 23, 1655-1656, Copyright © 1992 by American Heart Association

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Irish brogue after stroke

GM Seliger, GM Abrams and A Horton
Department of Neurology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York.

BACKGROUND: We describe a patient who presented a unique variation of the previously described acquired foreign accent syndrome. CASE DESCRIPTION: A 65-year-old women developed an Irish brogue immediately after a deep left hemisphere stroke. The newly accented speech possibly represented a previously learned speech pattern. CONCLUSIONS: Suppressed prosodic speech patterns may reemerge in the setting of brain injury.

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