Subjectivity Predicts Adjective Ordering Preferences
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...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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The MIT Press
2017-02-01
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| Series: | Open Mind |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/OPMI_a_00005 |