Sing-song

The Kansai dialects are said to have a "sing-song" quality because their pitch accents differ from standard Japanese, which comes from the Tokyo dialect.

"Everything's well, everything's swell," he told me with a sing-song voice, and I had no choice but to believe him.

Tobias called out in a sing-song way: "Isabella, where are you?"

As Jürgen Klopp took Sadio Mané in his arms and spun him like a beloved ballroom partner, there was a moment of sing-song communion with the Kop. They love these big fat emotional notes here.

[S]he put on a kind of sing-song voice whenever she was pissed, it was one of the signs that she was really gone […]

Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.