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Also, subjects' RTs to some constraints were significantly different from their RTs to other constraints.","Such findings suggest that code-mixers and non-code-mixers may not be different types of bilinguals. In addition, the fact that subjects responded significantly faster to acceptable than to unacceptable code-mixed sentences suggests that rules for code-mixing do exist. Finally, differences in subjects' responses to various syntactic constraints suggest that some constraints on code-mixing may be stronger than others. The implications of such findings are that code-mixing appears to be rule governed and that the processing of code-mixed sentences may parallel the procesing of monolingual sentences.","Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:38:51Z (GMT). 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