Considering the difference between "big, red ball" and "red, big ball", the former allows both adjectives to accumulate for a ball object, while the latter forces 'red' to be a single adjective of a compound "big ball" object.
I have been writing about lexicons of object (topic) types and wrestling with how colored sub-types are defined before sized subtypes. The lexicon itself defines 'isKindOf' relations that are physical and only one-way. So, the adjective order is hard-wired and, presumably, it comes from the history of how those object types were stored to create the actual lexicon. In other words, it comes down to the timing when those adjective types were acquired.
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