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1. Syntactical Neighborhood

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   The Phenomenon of Contextual Bleaching
   A significant implication of the Syntactical Neighborhood theory is Contextual Bleaching, which occurs when prolonged exposure to a specific, highly cohesive neighborhood erodes the specific semantic content of the central lexeme, replacing it with a generalized, purely functional utility.
   For instance, the word azure when consistently found within the neighborhood of sky, ocean, or sapphire begins to lose its specific chromatic value, approaching the statistical mea…