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http://www.smh.com.au/world/englishman-wakes-up-speaking-welsh-20121228-2byhp.html


Englishman wakes up speaking Welsh
  Date  December 28, 2012 - 10:12AM 

An Englishman has woken up after a stroke and started speaking Welsh.

Alun Morgan, 81, was evacuated to Wales during the Second World War and during 
his time there he never picked up the native tongue.

His wife Yvonne was the only person who could understand him and had to 
translate for doctors.

Morgan told the Bath Chronicle: "I don't remember anything from the time of my 
stroke.

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"But gradually I started speaking a few words in Welsh.

"This was strange because I'd not lived in Wales since I was evacuated there 
during the war."

Doctors have diagnosed Morgan with aphasia, a form of brain damage that causes 
a shift in the brain's language centre.

The most common cause of aphasia is stroke, but gunshot wounds, blows to the 
head, other traumatic brain injuries and brain tumours can also cause aphasia.

It can also result in a disorder known as Foreign Accent Syndrome, which causes 
a sudden change to speech so that a native speaker talks with a foreign accent.

Researchers at Oxford University have found that patients with Foreign Accent 
Syndrome have suffered damage to tiny areas of the brain that affect speech.

The result is often a drawing out or clipping of the vowels that mimic the 
accent of a particular country, such as Spain or France, even if the sufferer 
has limited exposure to that accent.

The syndrome was first identified during the Second World War when a Norwegian 
woman suffered shrapnel damage to her brain and developed a strong German 
accent.

PA


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