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In ideal laboratory listening settings, these struggles can become smaller. For this reason, most research on L2 accent processing uses speech-in-noise paradigms to avoid ceiling effects. Here, we explore whether neural tracking provides a sensitive measure of L2-processing difficulties, even in ideal listening conditions. In our electroencephalography (EEG) study, Canadian English-speaking adults were presented with Canadian (L1) and Mandarin-accented (L2) English. We assessed neural tracking of speech by analyzing coherence between the speech envelope and EEG. We found significantly stronger tracking for L1-accented speech, in canonical delta-theta frequencies, as well as higher-frequency bands associated with fine-grained phonemic encoding. Exploratory analyses illustrated that transcription errors correlated with neural tracking and that neural tracking was greater for L1- than L2-accented speech at the word and phoneme rate. 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