In order to test the speculation that long- rather than shortdistance semantic integration in sentence reading competed for neural resources with chord-sequence comprehension, Li et al. (2023) conducted two experiments in the interference paradigm, using the event-related potential (ERP) technique. In Experiment 1, participants were required to read a sentence (e.g., ‘??? ?????,’ The policeman picked up a mobile phone), which became semantically and syntactically unacceptable when the sentence-ending noun (e.g., ‘??,’ mobile phone) was replaced with a verb (e.g., ‘??,’ to run) (acceptability), while listening to a chord sequence, the last chord of which was an in-key or outof-key chord (regularity). The materials of Experiment 1 were adopted in Experiment 2, with a three-word-long objective-gap relative clause (e.g., ‘?????,’ that a tourist might have left) inserted ahead of the last word in each sentence and three chords in tone with the preceding chords inserted ahead of the fourth chord of each sequence.