Cortex
Volume 45, Issue 7 , Pages 870-878 , July 2009

Foreign accent syndrome as a developmental motor speech disorder

  • Peter Mariën

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology and Memory Clinic, ZNA Middelheim General Hospital and Laboratory of Neurochemistry and Behaviour, Born-Bunge Foundation, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
    • Department of Linguistics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium and Faculty of Medicine, University of Gent, Gent, Belgium
    • Both authors contributed equally to the manuscript.
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Neurology, ZNA Middelheim Hospital, Lindendreef 1, B-2020 Antwerp, Belgium.
    • ,
  • Jo Verhoeven

      Affiliations

    • Department of Language and Communication Science, City University, London, UK
    • Both authors contributed equally to the manuscript.
    • ,
  • Peggy Wackenier

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology and Memory Clinic, ZNA Middelheim General Hospital and Laboratory of Neurochemistry and Behaviour, Born-Bunge Foundation, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
    • ,
  • Sebastiaan Engelborghs

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology and Memory Clinic, ZNA Middelheim General Hospital and Laboratory of Neurochemistry and Behaviour, Born-Bunge Foundation, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
    • ,
  • Peter P. De Deyn

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology and Memory Clinic, ZNA Middelheim General Hospital and Laboratory of Neurochemistry and Behaviour, Born-Bunge Foundation, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Received 9 April 2008 ,Revised 14 August 2008 ,Accepted 31 October 2008.

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