 One of the important corollaries of this salience-based defaultness is the possible redundancy of the literal/nonliteral distinction. If words exhibit strong influences on each other in a string as well as influences from the situation of discourse (sometimes called ‘lateral’ and ‘top-down influences’, respectively – see e.g., Recanati 2012), then we have little reason for postulating literal meaning. For example, in (25), we have little reason for postulating ‘literal’ meanings of ‘city’ or ‘asleep’: either of the words may accommodate to fit the other, and the appropriate interpretation will follow.