{"pk":28483,"title":"Subjectivity-based adjective ordering maximizes communicative success","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Adjective ordering preferences (e.g., big brown bag vs. brownbig bag) are robustly attested in English and many unrelatedlanguages (Dixon, 1982). Scontras, Degen, and Goodman(2017) showed that adjective subjectivity is a robust predictorof ordering preferences in English: less subjective adjectivesare preferred closer to the modified noun. In a follow-up tothis empirical finding, Simoniˇc (2018) and Scontras, Degen,and Goodman (to appear) claim that pressures from success-ful reference resolution and the hierarchical structure of mod-ification explain subjectivity-based ordering preferences. Weprovide further support for this claim using large-scale sim-ulations of reference scenarios, together with an empirically-motivated adjective semantics. In the vast majority of cases,subjectivity-based adjective orderings yield a higher probabil-ity of successful reference resolution.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"adjective ordering"},{"word":"subjectivity"},{"word":"reference resolu-tion"},{"word":"hierarchical modification"}],"section":"Papers with Oral Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1kh6t6ch","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Michael","middle_name":"","last_name":"Franke","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Osnabr ̈uck","department":""},{"first_name":"Gregory","middle_name":"","last_name":"Scontras","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Californa, Irvine","department":""},{"first_name":"Mihael","middle_name":"","last_name":"Simoniˇc","name_suffix":"","institution":"Joˇzef Stefan Institute","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28483/galley/18354/download/"}]}