Cross-Linguistic Experimental Evidence Distinguishing the Role of Context in Disputes over Taste and Possibility

One might think that Sam’s utterance in (1) is a subjective one, essentially expressing that he personally finds the cake tasty, in which case one would not expect significant meaning differences between (1) and a similar utterance where the subjectivity is made explicit, such as (3).

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