Abstract
Listening to speech is one of our favorite activities. Our ears and brain are increasingly solicited by speech sounds, as our means of communication — radio, TV, and most recently, the mobile phone — continue to develop. Fortunately, in most instances the processing of our native language is rapid, automatic, and efficient. However, this remarkable and seemingly effortless ability to understand speech from diverse speakers in various situations — ranging from face to face conversations to the filtered speech received in phone transmissions — hides a highly complex cognitive device. This complexity only becomes truly apparent when this device is damaged, as in the case of aphasia, or is presented with a language that it does not master, or is placed in an experimental situation that is particularly difficult or constraining.
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