ABSTRACT
Throughout this book, the author pursued a number of theses. This chapter lists them in a concise form. The first is that language production is incremental. Although it is obvious that humans produce and understand language incrementally, that is, as a sequence of increments, this is often not reflected in the scientific discussions, in particular in noncognitive approaches to language. The second thesis is that to understand conceptualization, one must understand its incremental nature. Extending thesis 1, incrementality is not just one of many different ways in which conceptualization works. A proper understanding of conceptualization is interwoven with a proper understanding of its incrementality. Another thesis is that the conceptualizer is a quasi-module. The components carrying out the subtasks of conceptualization are modular only to some extent, which means they are only partly independent of other cognitive faculties.
