Processing also seems to be partial or incomplete, at least in some situations. It seems difficult to explain these results within a minimalist approach which requires local semantic coherence to be established before the phrase is integrated into a larger unit of meaning. The data are not clean enough to make very strong claims, however. The second wave of subjects did not replicate the effect observed for the first wave. A false dichotomy in theories of inference during reading.
Mental models contribute to foregrounding during text comprehension.
Some mechanisms of coherence. Paper presented at the workshop on coherence in spontaneous discourse. Questions of Immediacy in anaphoric reference resolution.