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Are there any generalization of the lexical hypothesis that are being studied in philosophy?

Philosophy Asked on October 25, 2021

The lexical hypothesis according to wikipedia is related to the following two postulates:

The first states that those personality characteristics that are
important to a group of people will eventually become a part of that
group’s language[6]. The second follows from the first, stating that
more important personality characteristics are more likely to be
encoded into language as a single word

I was wondering if the following generalizations of that hypothesis are known in the philosophical literature:

Any behaviour/procedure that is important in a group is very likely to be eventually encoded into the language of that group. It is also likely to be encoded in concise phrases or single words.
The rate of which this happens is depended(among others) to the concepts that are initially connected/grouped with the behaviour.

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