The ability to selectively attend to a speech signal amid competing sounds is a significant
challenge, especially for listeners trying to comprehend non-native speech. Attention is
critical to direct neural processing resources to the most essential information. Here, neural
tracking of the speech envelope of an English story narrative and cortical auditory evoked
potentials (CAEPs) to non-speech stimuli were simultaneously assayed in native and non-
native listeners of English. Although native listeners exhibited higher narrative …