ABSTRACT

Models like inC can never be complete, as it has its limitations and scope for possible enhancements. This chapter reviews what inC has already achieved and points out ways in which it can and should be extended and improved. It describes general enhancements that will improve inC and give a number of additional parameters that add more flexibility to future versions of the implementation. The chapter gives an account of incremental processing, explores some of its consequences, and identifies the particular kinds of incrementality that work smoothly with Levelt's conception of language production. The results from the analyses are encouraging and indicate a solution for the main problem of investigating conceptualization: its high complexity. Despite all accomplishments, inC still is only a simple model of the conceptualizer. The chapter also comments on a few necessary enhancements.