Why does singing often improve fluency? (in your own words)

Why does singing often improve fluency? (in your own words) Why does singing often improve fluency? My opinion: Singing is often associated with less fear of judgements. Because: If we sing, the song is usually pre-scripted rather than conveying our true feelings or opinions. There is a reduced expectation that someone will reply to the “message” you are singing. Singing is more for fun than for conversational critique. There is generally no expectation that the listener should understand the words, so young children very quickly develop the faith that they can keep moving forward when they sing, even though they might not be singing very well. They accept the probability that they will make mistakes (errors) and may have to miss out some sounds or words. There are fewer social components, e.g., conversational turn-taking. There is no need to self-generate emotion on the spot. There is less ambiguity about the intent of the sung message. Cultural and social norms around singing prioritize forward flow — even if we make small mistakes in tone or forget a word, the expectation is to continue. In contrast, in conversational speech, meaning and propositional content are prioritized. To innate vocalizations that are evoked by emotional states, human speech is learned and volitional. ommunication relies on active listening and response. Unlike in song, which is rather fixed, speech melody, rhythm and volume dynamics vary depending on the communicative context, for example, excitement and pleasure by using a rising tone or irony by using a falling tone. So, in speaking, such temporal constraints are less definite or can be planned and executed more freely. 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. 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) In contrast, in conversational speech we may excessively focus 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 interfering with speech control We sing more freely and impulsively; conversational speech engages in more cautious speech execution regulation \~\~ Your thoughts?