ABSTRACT
Monitoring and messages generation are the two subcomponents of the conceptualizer. The monitor compares a speaker's actual utterances ψ JL with the planned ones. That is, it compares the output of the language comprehension system for the speaker's own utterances to the corresponding utterance plans. Although inC is mainly a model of the message generation component, in this chapter the author lays the foundation of extending it by a monitoring component. The chapter explains the problem of detecting errors in the conceptualizer and the consequences this has for inC. It describes the implementation of a rudimentary monitor for inC. In conceptualization, there are two main sources for errors: performance errors, usually detected by self-monitoring, and what the author calls as conceptual changes. The interleaving of message generation and monitoring is a central aspect of the incrementality of generation.
