"A SOUND curiosity, in which a spoken phrase seems to morph into a song when repeated, is shedding light on the difference between speech and song.
Diana Deutsch, a psychologist at the University of California in San Diego, first noticed the illusion in the mid-1990s when editing a recording of her own voice. One phrase - "sometimes behaves so strangely" - began to sound like a song when she replayed it several times. [(see http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026815.200?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=mg20026815.200)
http://wiki.houseofmoran.com/music/sbss.mike.m4a My attempt is, I think, a bit too slow. Carmens' is better, but she wouldn't let me put it up here.