Faultless disagreement judgments track adults' estimates of population-level consensus over adjective-referent pairs

1. Scontras, G., Degen, J., & Goodman, N. D. (2017). Subjectivity predicts adjective ordering preferences. Open Mind, 1(1), 53-66. 2. Barker, C. (2013). Negotiating taste. Inquiry, 56 (2-3), 240-257. 3. Cook, R., Kay, P., & Regier, T. World Color Survey Data Archives, http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/wcs/data.html 4. Foushee, R., & Srinivasan, M. (2017). Could both be right? Children’s and adults’ sensitivity to subjectivity in language. In Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 379-384). • Crosslinguistic adjective ordering preferences have been explained in terms of adjectives’ subjectivity1 (strange small blue shirt > strange blue small shirt) • Faultless disagreement judgments2 reflect adults’ beliefs about subjectivity • Subjectivity judgments vary systematically by semantic class • Where do intuitions about utterance subjectivity come from? • Language is a conventional system... • Adults may model their speech community in evaluating the subjectivity of a word or utterance • Quadratic relation between consensus estimates and faultless disagreement judgments: lower consensus