>*"Singing has a steady flow, avoids the stops and starts of regular speech, and feels less stressful, which helps bypass stuttering triggers. It also engages both brain hemispheres and often involves memorized lyrics, making it smoother and easier."* This [research](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/1cuicay/how_singing_repairs_the_language_region_of_the/) is really interesting. "*According to the findings, singing, as it were, repairs the structural language network of the brain. The language network processes language and speech in our brain.*" Another research [study](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378400216_Knowns_and_unknowns_about_the_neurobiology_of_stuttering) (Knowns and unknowns about the neurobiology of stuttering, 2024) discusses similar topics, I'll try to summarize it: * Singing could work as a sort of distraction from triggers e.g., by focusing on pitch modulation (i.e., tone and melody speech), voicing, volume, and timing patterns * Rather than excessively focusing on affective state influence from communicative context, and utilization of cognitive control, such as, repetitive negative thinking about feared words/situations, or excessively checking whether we spoke fluently or not. If we are singing, we give our control back to our subconscious, we basically let our body do its own thing without interferring with speech control (i.e., we don't maladaptively overregulate speech execution) * In this way, our subconscious can focus on encoding articulatory voicing (for the production of voiced and voiceless consonants), ongoing auditory feedback control, auditory memory retrieval, and auditory error signal processing (to maintain fluency) * The result is: we reduce the proportion of short phonation intervals, lengthen vowel durations, slow articulation rate, and stabilize articulatory voicing - resulting in reduced stuttering. During speech we seem to concern ourselves more about stuttering anticipation (and other speech errors in general), resulting in overregulating speech execution. So our past experiences dictate the extent to which our speech plans become activated and the moments when the release threshold (to release words/sounds for execution) rises and falls. Merry Christmas!