Vocal imitation of song and speech

► Individuals imitated the absolute pitch information in melodies more accurately than sentences. ► The absolute pitch melodic advantage persisted across multiple syllable timing manipulations. ► Phonetic information improved imitation of absolute and relative pitch for both speech and song. ► The phonetic advantage suggests that pitch processors are not encapsulated to speech information. ► Imitation accuracy for song and speech are positively correlated.