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(UMI)AAI9124378 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/22407 eng Copyright 1991 Armitano, Karen S. Education, Language and Literature Language, Linguistics Mack, Molly Armitano, Karen S. 2011-05-07T13:38:51Z 2011-05-07T13:38:51Z 10000-01-01 1991 This study was based on a reaction time (RT) experiment conducted to see if there were differences in RTs between code-mixers and non-code-mixers in a sentence verification task. Task 1 was a timed test in which Spanish-English bilingual code-mixers and non-code-mixers responded to computer-presented monolingual sentences and acceptable and unacceptable code-mixed sentences. Task 2 was a non-timed metalinguistic grammaticality judgment task in which the same subjects were asked to indicate if the code-mixed sentences presented in the timed task were acceptable or unacceptable code-mixed sentences. Results revealed small, though not significant, RT differences between code-mixers and non-code-mixers responses to code-mixed and monolingual sentences. Results also revealed no significant difference between code-mixers and non-code-mixers' number of correct responses on the non-timed task. However, both groups' RTs to English monolingual sentences were significantly shorter than their RTs to Spanish monolingual sentences, and their RTs to acceptable code-mixed sentences were significantly shorter than their RTs to unacceptable code-mixed sentences. 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). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9124378.pdf: 6717039 bytes, checksum: 5e5ecad428f50958a7a62d09240ffc37 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1991 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:57:24Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:26:55-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission U of I Only AAI9124378 Psychology, Experimental Processing of code-mixed sentences by two types of bilinguals: A comparison of code-mixers and non-code-mixers text Education Education University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.