 All in all, the term ‘default meaning’ has been used in a variety of ways in the literature, including statistically common interpretation, predictable meaning, salient meaning, or automatically retrieved meaning. To begin with a common-sense definition, default interpretation of the speaker’s utterance is normally understood to mean salient meaning intended by the speaker, or presumed by the addressee to have been intended, and recovered (a) without the help of inference from the speaker’s intentions or (b) without any conscious inferential process whatsoever. Default interpretations, interpretations producing the standard content, are defined differently depending on how ‘default’ is defined: as a default for the lexical item, a default for the syntactic structure, a default for a particular construction, or even a default for a particular context (where, in addition, there is a necessary correlation with the adopted definition of ‘context’). The delimitation of such defaults can proceed according to different methods that, again, can affect the results, and as such further contribute to the definition of defaults. For example, the psychological route is associated with automatic, inference-free interpretations, while the statistical route appeals to quantitative analyses of data, where the latter can pertain to corpora of conversations or big databases of word co-occurrence as used in statistical, distributional approaches in computational semantics.