 A new trend of psycholinguistic research potentially offers some promising new evidence about the degree to which presuppositions are processed like pragmatic inferences or semantic entailments. The methods in these studies typically rely on identifying at what point during the processing of an utterance presuppositions become available to the listener. The line of reasoning goes like this: if presuppositions are conventionally encoded in their triggers and are conditions for contexts to update, they should arise immediately when a trigger is used. However, if presuppositions are the result of pragmatic reasoning, there should be a delay in their processing. While the results of these studies have been somewhat inconsistent, they largely suggest that presuppositions are processed immediately. For example, one of the experiments in Tiemann et al. (2011) finds that presupposition triggers themselves carry a processing cost relative to other non-presuppositional expressions. In an eye-tracking study, Kim (2008) finds that there are shifts in eye movements quite rapidly after the utterance of the trigger only. These studies and the methodologies used in them are still relatively new. However, empirical work on the processing of presuppositions remains a promising strand of research in determining the extent to which we can consider presuppositions to be conventional