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hav vowels and pitch when sung. most reasonableview in thepresent stateof theart is to consider that someaspects ofmusicengagedomain-specificprocesses (Peretz and Zatorre, 2005; Peretz, 2006) while other aspects engage processes that are shared between music and language (Patel, 2003; Peretz and Coltheart, 2003; Peretz and Zatorre, 2005; Price et al., 2006). The aspects of music and speech that are handled by shared processes remain unclear. Pitch height and phonemes, which are joint processing of vowels and pitch in sung stimuli. In a speeded classification task (Garner, 1974) of bisyllabic nonwords sung on two-notemelodic intervals, Kolinsky et al. (2009) observed that vo-wel and pitch dimensions cannot be attended selectively. When the nonword classificationwas based on vowel identity, irrelevant vari-ations in pitch interfered with the classification process. A similar interference of irrelevant vowel variations was observed when the classification was based on pitch. Thus, classification performance suggested that vowel and pitch were integral rather than separable dimensions (Garner, 1974). Whereas similar results have been ob-tained in tone languages (Lee and Nusbaum, 1993; Repp and Lin