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This review focuses on temporally‐sensitive cognitive neuroscience approaches that allow us to directly measure early perceptual processes, with the goal of elucidating new models of speech perception and spoken language comprehension. Overall, the data provide support for two key principles: (a) speech perception is based on gradient representations of speech sounds and (b) speech perception is interactive and receives input from higher‐level linguistic context at the earliest stages of cortical processing.