“…Over-informative adjectives may not impair on-line language processing (Arts, Maes, Noordman, & Jansen, 2011;Davies & Katsos, 2013;Levelt, 1989;Rubio-Fernández, P., 2016;cf., Engelhardt, Demiral, & Ferreira, 2011), and may reflect natural properties of utterance formulation (Belke, 2006;Pechmann, 1989). Furthermore, because the three shapes (circles, square, triangle) were repeated across training trials, the use of scalars that were over-informative for a given visual display may have been attributed to a tendency to lexically differentiate the currently observed shapes from those seen on previous trials (Van der Wege, 2009;Yoon & Brown-Schmidt, 2014) or to a looser definition of the comparison class-for example, the comparison class for a triangle may be other shapes in general (e.g., "small square" to contrast with a larger circle). Thus, due to speakers' tendency to over-use adjectives in general, and the potential attribution of over-modification to other communicative goals, participants may not have perceived our over-modified instructions as truly infelicitous (Engelhardt et al, 2006;Pogue et al 2016).…”