Subjectivity Predicts Adjective Ordering Preferences. Scontras, G., Degen, J., & Goodman, N. D. Open Mind, 1(1):53–66, February, 2017. doi abstract bibtex From English to Hungarian to Mokilese, speakers exhibit strong ordering preferences in multi-adjective strings: ``the big blue box'' sounds far more natural than ``the blue big box.'' We show that an adjective's distance from the modified noun is predicted not by a rigid syntax, but by the adjective's meaning: less subjective adjectives occur closer to the nouns they modify. This finding provides an example of a broad linguistic universal—adjective ordering preferences—emerging from general properties of cognition.
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