“…Discourse Linking is reflected by N400-modulations and is highly driven by expectations built up from the context of utterance (for intertextual expectations see Burkhardt, 2006;van Berkum, Hagoort, & Brown, 1999; for interlocutor-specific expectations see van Berkum, Holleman, Nieuwland, Otten, & Murre, 2009;van Berkum, van den Brink, Tesink, Kos, & Hagoort, 2008). The expectations that guide Discourse Linking are further generated from the referent's salience, most prominently encoded by lexical-semantics, but also by structural parallelism, distance, referential form, or prosodic cues, among others (e.g., Schumacher & Baumann, 2010;Streb, Hennighausen, & Rösler, 2004;Streb, Rösler, & Hennighausen, 1999). Likewise givenness has been shown to modulate this process (Burkhardt, 2006, et seq.…”