10 Aphasia Symptoms
Symptom #9: Dysprosody
Dysprosody is a term describing pseudo-foreign accent syndrome. Prosody refers to variations in accents, melody, intonation, intensity, pauses, and stresses in speech. This means it has many functions such as expressing different levels of speech.
Patients with aphasia and experiencing dysprosody tend to experience issues with pitch or timing control. They are unable to control the way the words are expressed. Experts have observed that their patients who have aphasia may also experience dysprosody. Their accent was altered along with a slower timing of speech.
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