Table 1.

Examples of the stimuli

	Previously Predictable
First presentation	Alfonso has started biking to work instead of driving his car.
Filler	The mother of the tall guard had the same accent.
Filler	The lawyer feared that his client was guilty.
Critical sentence	It had been several years since they last cleaned the car.
	Previously Unpredictable
First presentation	Jason tried to make space for others by moving his car.
Filler	The mother of the tall guard had the same accent.
Filler	The lawyer feared that his client was guilty.
Critical sentence	It had been several years since they last cleaned the car.
	Not Previously Seen
Filler	The final score of the game was tied.
Filler	The mother of the tall guard had the same accent.
Filler	The lawyer feared that his client was guilty.
Critical sentence	It had been several years since they last cleaned the car.

Note. Critical words are underlined. The critical sentence was always weakly constraining, but the conditions differed in terms of what participants had previously seen. If the critical word had previously been seen, it had been predictable or unpredictable (average cloze probability 0.86 or 0.01, respectively).