On the basis of this, one
would predict the results of the current study to be replicable in comprehension.
Further, as described in Methods, our production paradigm
allowed us to keep the physical stimulus almost completely constant
across conditions (cf., Del Prato and Pylkkänen, 2014; Pylkkänen et al.,
2014), which was particularly useful given that confounding low level
factors are often an issue in language studies. The combination of our
two-word paradigm together with the millisecond time-resolution of
MEG circumvents the principle obstacle behind electrophysiological investigations
of sentence production, i.e., that meaningful electrophysiological
data is extremely difficult to collect while the mouth is moving.
However, the syntactic and semantic planning of small two-word
phrases is thought to occur entirely prior to the onset of articulation