“…To substantiate our interpretation of the data in this region in terms of inferences, we should demonstrate that the increase of reading times at the end of the sentence is actually due to inferential processing. As mentioned in the introduction, evidence for making the inference online may be obtained from the combined results of a reading task and a verification task in which the inferential information has to be verified as fast as possible (see also Singer & Halldorson, 1996;Singer, Halldorson, Lear, & Andrusiak, 1992;Singer, Harkness, & Stewart, 1997). The combination of an increase in reading time at the end of the sentence and a decrease in verification time, as a result of the presence of the conjunction, can be interpreted as evidence for online inferential processing.…”