{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Liberto GMD"],"funding":["Columbia University","NIDCD NIH HHS","NIMH NIH HHS","École Normale Supérieure"],"pagination":["117586"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC8527895"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["227"],"pubmed_abstract":["Acquiring a new language requires individuals to simultaneously and gradually learn linguistic attributes on multiple levels. Here, we investigated how this learning process changes the neural encoding of natural speech by assessing the encoding of the linguistic feature hierarchy in second-language listeners. Electroencephalography (EEG) signals were recorded from native Mandarin speakers with varied English proficiency and from native English speakers while they listened to audio-stories in English. We measured the temporal response functions (TRFs) for acoustic, phonemic, phonotactic, and semantic features in individual participants and found a main effect of proficiency on linguistic encoding. This effect of second-language proficiency was particularly prominent on the neural encoding "],"journal":["NeuroImage"],"pubmed_title":["Neural representation of linguistic feature hierarchy reflects second-language proficiency."],"pmcid":["PMC8527895"],"funding_grant_id":["R01 DC014279","R21 MH114166","R01 DC018805"],"pubmed_authors":["Yeaton J","Khalighinejad B","Mesgarani N","Nie J","Liberto GMD","Shamma SA"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Neural representation of linguistic feature hierarchy reflects second-language proficiency.","description":"Acquiring a new language requires individuals to simultaneously and gradually learn linguistic attributes on multiple levels. Here, we investigated how this learning process changes the neural encoding of natural speech by assessing the encoding of the linguistic feature hierarchy in second-language listeners. Electroencephalography (EEG) signals were recorded from native Mandarin speakers with varied English proficiency and from native English speakers while they listened to audio-stories in English. We measured the temporal response functions (TRFs) for acoustic, phonemic, phonotactic, and semantic features in individual participants and found a main effect of proficiency on linguistic encoding. This effect of second-language proficiency was particularly prominent on the neural encoding ","dates":{"release":"2021-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2021 Feb","modification":"2025-04-04T09:18:20.335Z","creation":"2025-04-04T09:18:20.335Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC8527895","cross_references":{"pubmed":["33346131"],"doi":["10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117586"]}}