**Figure 1.** Schematic overview of example trials for sentence (constrained, unconstrained, reversed) and picture (normal, scrambled) conditions. Note the different time-lockings to sentence or picture. Sentence time varies per trial. **Figure 2.** Mean naming times per condition. All values for one participant are connected by one line. Black dots connected by the dotted line represent the group mean per condition. Note that scrambled and bare conditions were preceded by reversed sentences. **Figure 3.** Time-frequency representations during the pre-picture interval per contrast between conditions. Time 0s represents picture onset, -0.8s is sentence offset. A) constrained over unconstrained sentences, B) constrained over reversed sentences, C) unconstrained over reversed sentences. Selected channels are shown in the empty topo plots in between. The large topo plots show topographies from 8-25Hz for -750ms to -400ms (left topo plot) and -250ms to 0ms (right topo plot) per contrast. The lower TFR plots show t-values masked for statistical significance for channels P1 (top) and P5 (bottom). Note that the upper two colorbars show power changes and the lower one shows t-values. **Figure 4.** Event-related potentials during pre-picture interval and picture onset per condition over selected occipital channels (shown in the empty topoplot in the top left corner). The first vertical line at -0.8s represents sentence offset and the second vertical line at 0s represents picture onset. For each peak of the visual evoked potential (P1: 100-160ms , N1: 160-200ms, P2: 200-30ms) we show the respective topography in columns per condition on the right. The color scales are the same per ERP component, but different between components. **Figure 5.** Event-related potentials (A) and time-frequency representations (B, C) during sentence onset (-0.8 - 1.8s) for electrode FCz as shown in the empty topoplot on top. Large topo plots show topographies in µV for the auditory evoked potential from 240-400ms after sentence onset as marked by the two vertical lines in the ERP plot per condition. Time-frequency plots in panels B and C display power changes for the contrasts of constrained over reversed and unconstrained over reversed sentences, respectively. Time 0s represents sentence onset in all plots.