The influence of senses and their combinations has already proven invaluable to language ‎comprehension investigations, yet it is not clear to what extent they may add to the functional ‎characteristics of the biphasic, language-related electrophysiological markers. Therefore, to ‎integrate information from different sensory modalities and examine how sense combinations ‎modulate the N400 and LPC during L2 sentence processing, we used the emotioncy model. ‎Based on the model, we instructed a list of unknown English words to 30 participants using a ‎combination of three (exvolvement) and five senses (involvement). Their behavioral and neural ‎responses to these words were checked via event-related brain potentials (ERPs) and a visual ‎acceptability judgment task with 216 English sentences under non-violated and semantically ‎violated conditions. The results revealed that, taking the retrieval-integration (RI) account, ‎different sense combinations modulated the LPC responses to semantically violated sentences, ‎yet left the N400 unchanged. Thus, to boost comprehension and reduce the cognitive load ‎during the integration and reinterpretation process, multisensory properties of the input need ‎to be enriched. ‎

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