"Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS) is a speech disorder that causes a sudden change to speech so that a native speaker is perceived to speak with a foreign accent."
Wha...?! I've never heard of this. It's rather interesting to read about. It makes me think of Oliver Sacks' book, Musicophilia. Lo and behold, there's a website for Musicophilia. There are videos of Sacks talking about some of the cases he discusses in the book. (Sacks is a neurologist; the movie Awakenings was based on his book of the same title, and his book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is very much worth reading.) He talks about amusia, the inability to recognize music as music -- instead, music just sounds like noise. And synesthesia, and music therapy.... Lots of interesting things which are much more interesting coming from him.
This and that.
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