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From: Klaas Bakker, Springfield, MO
Date: 06 Oct 2009
Time: 11:43:13 -0500
Remote Name: 146.7.150.230
Manpreet, It sounds like you already have a lot of experience with speaking in a sing songy manner and what it does for your speech fluency. Also, your received some great answers already, but I believe some possible explanations are still missing. Singing differs in many ways from natural speech, and so any physical difference of singing could be part of the explanation of why you don't stutter (as much). When someone sings, or speaks in a sing songy manner, you may bypass some of the brain centers you typically use for speaking (I don't think people sing from the right brain entirely though). When you sing, usually much of the expression is in how you produce the vowels of your speech (they have a certain pitch, intensity and duration, while their stress is related to a rhythimical pattern). All of this could explain why there is less stuttering. Finally, often singing involves speech already formulated by someone else, so it comes from memory. However, if you speak in a sing songy manner, like you described, obviously you are still in control of that. These would be some of my first thoughts looking for an explanation. But any explanation would still need more research to definitely tell. Hope this helps.