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Perceptual organization is the critical function by which a listener resolves the sensory samples into streams specific to worldly objects and events. In the perceptual organization of speech, the auditory correlates of speech are resolved into a coherent stream that is fit to be analyzed for its linguistic and indexical properties. Although many contemporary accounts of speech perception are silent about perceptual organization, it is unlikely that the generic auditory functions of perceptual grouping provide adequate means to find and follow the complex properties of speech. It is possible to propose a rough outline of an adequate account of the perceptual organization of speech by drawing on relevant findings from different research projects spanning a variety of aims. The evidence from these projects suggests that the critical organizational functions that operate for speech are that it is fast, unlearned, nonsymbolic, keyed to complex patterns of coordinate sensory variation, indifferent to sensory quality, and requiring attention whether elicited or exerted. Research on other sources of complex natural sound has the potential to reveal whether these functions are unique to speech or are drawn from a common stock of resources of unimodal and multimodal perceptual organization.