Table 1. Pearson’s r values for verb-relevant correlations in left AG.

Correlations in left AG between the argument-saturated (eats meat) item with (a) an argument-saturated phrases without a verb (with meat), (b) a phrase sharing only a noun, but not composition type or verb (tasty meat), and (c) a phrase sharing a verb but constituting adjunct phrase (eats quickly) without argument saturation. Pairwise comparisons are reported using the best 50, 100, 200, and 500 voxels with highest (unsigned) t-statistics from the composition -vs.-non-composition contrast in left AG.

	50 voxels	100 voxels	200 voxels	500 voxels
shared noun AND shared composition type (eats meat ~ with meat)	0.027	0.035	0.019	0.018
shared noun (eats meat ~ tasty meat)	0.010	−0.029	−0.0097	0.0036
shared verb (eats meat ~ eats quickly)	0.044	0.17 *	0.056†	0.059 *

^†: 0.05<p < 0.1;

^*: p <0.05