Referencing context in sentence processing: A failure to replicate the strong interactive mental models hypothesis

•Grodner et al. (2005) – discourse influences processing of unambiguous structures.•Modest citations since 2005, but no replication on record.•Norms regarding power, modelling, and inferential philosophies now different.•Bayesian models provide probabilistic measure of effects.•Some evidence for general discourse facilitation, central finding not replicated.