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    "pk": 24223,
    "title": "Is the asymmetry in negative strengthening the result of adjectival polarity or face considerations?",
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    "abstract": "Sentences with negated adjectives receive a stronger interpretation than given by their semantics, a phenomenon called negative strengthening. It has been reported that inherently positive adjectives display a higher degree of negative strengthening than inherently negative adjectives. We investigate two possible causes of this asymmetry: intrinsic adjectival polarity and face considerations. Results of an experiment where face-related factors were manipulated suggest that both polarity and face contribute to the asymmetry. Extending a probabilistic RSA model of polite speech, we formalize the listener's reasoning about a speaker's use of negated adjectives as a tradeoff between expecting a speaker to maximize both an utterance's social and informational utility, while avoiding inherently costly adjectives.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
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            "word": "Linguistics; Language understanding; Pragmatics; Bayesian modeling; Computational Modeling; Computer-based experiment; Statistics"
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            "first_name": "Sarang",
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            "last_name": "Jeong",
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            "institution": "Stanford University",
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            "first_name": "Christopher",
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            "last_name": "Potts",
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            "institution": "Stanford University",
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            "institution": "Stanford University",
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    "date_published": "2024-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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