Contextual Discriminability, Semantic Similarity and Dissimilarity in a Standard English Lexicon and Corpus of Contexts for Similar Nouns

Sortings of contextual discriminability and rated similarity and discriminability were analyzed in a Standard English lexicon and corpus of contexts for 65 similar nouns among Black and Majority type respondents.  Contextual discriminability correlated strongly with relatedness ratings.  The data supported a contextual hypothesis of meaning, optimally among Majority group  informants.