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    "pk": 29366,
    "title": "Distinguishing Fact from Opinion: Effects of Linguistic Packaging",
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    "abstract": "During language comprehension, what guides how wedistinguish between objective facts and subjective opinions?Our three experiments investigate whether people’s ability todetect subjective content – which we indicated by means ofopinion-conveying adjectives (e.g. amazing, frustrating) – ismodulated by the adjective’s structural position. Our resultsindicate that altering the linguistic structure of a sentenceinfluences our perception of how subjective it is: Even whenthe basic information being conveyed is held constant,packaging this information in different ways elicits differentlevels of perceived subjectivity. When a subjective adjectiveoccurs in a structural position associated with newinformation, the text is rated as more subjective compared to atext that conveys the same basic information but has the sameadjective in a position associated with already-knowninformation. This suggests that the difference between factand opinion, or at least our ability to recognize opinion-basedinformation, can be distorted by linguistic packaging.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "subjectivity; language comprehension; adjectives;information structure; psycholinguistics"
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    ],
    "section": "Semantics",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7rb7q1hb",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Elsi",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Kaiser",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Southern California",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Catherine",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Wang",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Southern California",
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        }
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2020-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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