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Word meanings are determined by their patterns of usage in linguistic contexts.
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Word meanings are determined by their patterns of usage in linguistic contexts, as supported by both cognitive linguistic theories and distributional semantic models that derive semantic representations from language use.

Evidence for · 5
2021 · cited by 17
Demonstrates that distributional models successfully acquire word meanings by analyzing co-occurrence statistics and communication patterns in large language corpora.
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The retrieved papers heavily support the claim that word meanings are derived from contextual language use and distributional patterns. Papers [0], [1], [3], and [8] directly demonstrate how computational models and human cognitive processes ascertain and update word meanings through linguistic contexts and communication patterns. Paper [2] relates directly to contextual clues. No papers refute the core claim.

More for · 4
2019 · cited by 12
Proposes a framework combining construction grammar with distributional semantics, showing that linguistic meaning is systematically modeled from language use.
2000 · cited by 9
Examines how contextual clues shape and determine word meaning.
2025 · cited by 4
Shows that distributional semantic vectors reflect conceptual verb meanings by analyzing their nearest neighbors in semantic vector spaces.
2025 · cited by 0
Provides evidence that humans learn and continuously update word meanings based on the linguistic contexts in which they are experienced across time.
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  1. Distributional social semantics: Inferring word meanings from communication patterns.peer-reviewedsupports
  2. Distributional Semantics Meets Construction Grammar. towards a Unified Usage-Based Model of Grammar and Meaningpeer-reviewedsupports
  3. Contextual Clues to Word-Meaningpeer-reviewedsupports
  4. Integrating lexical-conceptual and distributional semantics: a case report.peer-reviewedsupports
  5. The meaning of morphomes: distributional semantics of Spanish stem alternationspeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  6. Scene Abstraction for Lexical Semantics: Structured Representations of Situated Meaningpeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  7. Freud and collocation: a psychodynamic interpretation of '<i>make</i>' and '<i>do</i>' in English.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  8. How to systematically and quantifiably remove meaning?peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  9. Semantic Representations Are Updated Across the Lifespan Reflecting Diachronic Language Change.peer-reviewedsupports
  10. Exploring the role of meaning in non-Māori speakers' 'proto-lexicon'.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  11. A corpus-based analysis on the use of MAKE in sinologist Cyril Birch's English version of Mistress and Maid (Jiaohongji).peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  12. Comparative Analysis of Japanese Clinical Note Styles Between Physicians and Large Language Models Using Identical Psychiatric Cases: Quantitative Text Analysis.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
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first checked06 Aug 2026
judged → SUPPORTED · 8306 Aug 2026
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