Believe it or not, it's a real thing, with several articles written about it.
Foreign accent syndrome: anatomic, pathophysiologic and psychosocial considerations. S D J Med. 2005.
"...described by Pick in 1919... Manifestations include disruption in segmental and prosodic elements of speech, which results in a listener's perception of the speech as foreign. In the majority of these rare cases, the patients present without having been exposed to the accent in the past..."
Functional foreign accent syndrome. Pract Neurol. 2016.
"characteristics that help to distinguish functional from structural cases: ...inconsistencies in accent production, the adoption of unusual mannerisms in speech and the speech disturbances being transient and reversible"
The foreign accent syndrome: a reconsideration. Brain Lang. 1996.
"quantitative acoustic data...challenging the notion that a general prosodic disturbance is the sole underlying mechanism in FAS..."
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