Still no evidence for audience design in syntax: Resumptive pronouns are not the exception

•Prior work: Speakers do not choose syntactic structures for interlocutors’ benefit.•Also prior work: Speakers produce resumptive pronouns to improve acceptability.•We manipulate acceptability & show no effect on resumptive pronoun production.•Our results likely also rule out working memory-based accounts of resumption.•There remains no clear audience design explanation for resumptive pronoun production.