Do you stutter when you speak with your tongue hanging out?

[AMANS]

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[Perad]

nope, when i have my toungue out it just hurts when i bite it

[Bobby]

it could work with ppl who use the phone.

but then u need to practise so you can sound like a normal person, lol

[Standingtall]

My tongue only hangs out when I'm riding in the back of the pickup box.

Seriously, I'll try it, but right now, I am making noise I can't understand.

[sign543]

I have also heard (and tried it) that you will not stutter if you keep your teeth together when you talk. I think it's a form of distraction...maybe like speaking with a feigned accent.

I'm currently using the passive airflow technique...seeing how I do with it over time.

http://www.stutteringstudent.com/blogspot.com

[Standingtall]

I will try that closing the teeth when speaking. I notice a few people speak like that. I see some hockey players with their tongue hanging out.

[sign543]

Let us know if it works for you! It did for me...but I know that all stutterers aren't the same.

I do a pretty darn good Jimmy Stewart imitation...and I never stutter when I'm doing it. Weird.

http://www.stutteringstudent.blogspot.com

[Standingtall]

Let us know if it works for you! It did for me...but I know that all stutterers aren't the same.

I do a pretty darn good Jimmy Stewart imitation...and I never stutter when I'm doing it. Weird.

http://www.stutteringstudent.blogspot.com

It will take time to get use to the technique, but I will try it.

I am a big fan of James Earl Jones and how successful he has become.

[sign543]

Distraction is purely psychological. That can hardly help in real speech situation when you are stressed. When you speak with your tongue hanging out you make your stuttering physiologically impossible no matter you are stressed or not.

Oh, I disagree. My blocking sometimes happens with my mouth wide open, as most stutterers will attest to. That's because the blockage happens in the larynx when the vocal cords shut tight and won't open no matter how hard you "push". Sticking out my tongue doesn't change that....in fact, I closed my vocal cords on purpose to demonstrate it. No air can get through...even with my tongue sticking out.

I do agree, however, that the distraction is not really useful in achieving fluency. It's merely another trick we use to get by.

Keep your teeth together and by tensing the muscles in your larynx block the air in your nasopharynx i. e. when you are unable to exhale through your nose. That’s quite easy to do. Then hang out your tongue entirely and try to do the same.

I don't know why it works, but when I keep my teeth closed, my stutter disappears entirely. I happen to think it's a psychological thing, because as you say, keeping your teeth closed does nothing to the vocal cords. That is precisely why I believe it's psychological...not physiological.

http://www.stutteringstudent.blogspot.com

[sign543]

I think wide-open mouth isn’t the reason. Sticking out your tongue fully is precisely the reason that doesn’t allow people to stutter.

Yes, I agree...I was just pointing out that sticking out your tongue does nothing more physically, as I understand it, than simply opening your mouth. Unless it works for the same reason that keeping my together prevents me from stuttering. I wish I knew more about the mechanism of speaking...to be able to give a more informed opinion. You seem to be pretty educated in it, however. :)



I think when hanging out the tongue it’s difficult to create an obstacle for the air flow which blocks the speech.

Could be...I just don't see why. The block occurs solely in the larynx when the vocal cords slam shut. I don't see what sticking out the tongue would do for closed vocal cords. Can you elaborate a bit more on that?

I think that sticking out the tongue creates a straight way for the air flow and prevents obstacles for it.

How? Opening the mouth wide also creates a straight airflow...yet that doesn't help. That's why I think it's a distraction. I could be wrong...but it just seems that way to me.

http://www.stutteringstudent.blogspot.com

[Brendan]

When reading in groups the stutter completely disappears! But on this subject, I think we should all work towards a method that works in all situations, not just on the phone. Err...anyway, that's my dig.