ABSTRACT Could meaning be read from acoustics, or from the refraction rate of pyramidal cells innervated by the cochlea, everyone would be an omniglot. Speech does not contain sufficient acoustic cues to identify linguistic units such as morphemes, words, and phrases without prior knowledge. Our target article (Meyer, L., Sun, Y., & Martin, A. E. (2019). Synchronous, but not entrained: Exogenous and endogenous cortical rhythms of speech and language processing. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2019.1693050) thus questioned the concept of “entrainment” of neural oscillations to such units. We suggested that synchronicity with these points to the existence of endogenous functional “oscillators”—or population rhythmic activity in Giraud’s (2020) terms—that underlie the inference, generation, and prediction of linguistic units. Here, we address a series of inspirational commentaries by our colleagues. As apparent from these, some issues raised by our target article have already been raised in the literature. Psycho– and neurolinguists might still benefit from our reply, as “oscillations are an old concept in vision and motor functions, but a new one in linguistics” (Giraud, A.-L. 2020. Oscillations for all A commentary on Meyer, Sun & Martin (2020). Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 1–8).

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“引导”到语音，生成语言？

摘要 从声学或由耳蜗支配的锥体细胞的折射率中可以看出意义，每个人都会是一个全能者。语音不包含足够的声学线索来识别语言单位，如没有先验知识的语素、单词和短语。我们的目标文章 (Meyer, L., Sun, Y., & Martin, AE (2019)。同步但不夹带：言语和语言处理的外源性和内源性皮质节律。语言、认知和神经科学，1-11。https ://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2019.1693050）因此质疑“夹带”神经振荡到这些单元的概念。我们认为，与这些同步性表明存在内源性功能性“振荡器”——或者用 Giraud (2020) 的术语来说是群体节律活动——这是推理、生成、和语言单位的预测。在这里，我们发表了同事们的一系列鼓舞人心的评论。从这些中可以明显看出，我们的目标文章提出的一些问题已经在文献中提出。心理和神经语言学家可能仍会从我们的答复中受益，因为“振荡是视觉和运动功能中的一个旧概念，但在语言学中是一个新概念”（Giraud, A.-L. 2020. Oscillations for all A commentary on Meyer, Sun & Martin (2020). 语言、认知和神经科学，1-8。