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Previous research points to the role different factors play in guiding language users’ expectations about upcoming content. For example, coreference processing is shown to vary with different cues that hold between sentences. The purpose of this Section is to review some of the major cues that have been shown to elicit expectations about the accessibility of a referent in terms of likelihood of pronominalization, namely: recency, givenness, syntactic prominence, semantic prominence, implicit causality and coherence relations. Each of these cues or factors have been investigated in terms of the predictions they yield at local level, between adjacent sentences, with respect to the likelihood of pronominalization and next mention of a referent.