“…The current data and previous studies (Ding et al, 2016, Buiatti et al, 2009, Steinhauer et al, 1999, Farthouat et al, 2016, Meyer et al, 2016, Peelle et al, 2013) show that, during speech listening, cortical activity is concurrently entrained to hierarchical linguistic units, including syllables, words, phrases, and sentences. Neural entrainment to hierarchical linguistic units provides a plausible mechanism to map hierarchical linguistic units into coupled dynamic neural processes that allow interactions between different linguistic levels (Martin and Doumas, 2017, Goswami and Leong, 2013, Giraud and Poeppel, 2012, Wassenhove et al, 2003).…”