Sentence-picture verification models as theories of sentence comprehension: A critique of Carpenter and Just (original) (raw)

The paper critiques recent information-processing models of sentence-picture verification, particularly focusing on Carpenter and Just's proposals. It highlights that these models fail to elucidate the processes by which verification representations are constructed and suffer from theoretical inadequacies regarding the nature of representations and strategies used during sentence verification tasks. Ultimately, the authors argue that while these models may illustrate specific verification processes, they do not provide a robust framework for understanding sentence comprehension.