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  <Title>PROCESSLNG OF SENTENCES WITH INTRA-SENTENTIAL CODE-SWITCHING i</Title>
  <Section position="8" start_page="145" end_page="145" type="concl">
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5. CONCLUSION
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have presented a formal model for characterizing intra-sentential code-switching. The main features of this model are that i) the model treats the two grammars (languages) asynmetrically, 2) there is no third gran~ar, and 3) the constraints on the switchability of closed class items. We believe that further investigation of code-switching in the proposed framework will be very productive, as it captures some essential aspects of intrasentential code,switching. Another interesting result concerns the role of closed class items. Since several inpor~ tant characteristics of closed class items are well-known in the context of processing of monolingual utterances, we think that further investigation of the role of closed class items in the context of code-switching will give us some insights into the processing of monolingual utterances. Our investigation of intra-sentential code-mixing can also be considered as a small contribution towards the larger problem of determining the nature of the interface between the two language systems of a bilingual speaker or hearer.</Paragraph>
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