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The age disparity is also explained to some extent by ageing effects, however.
The form cannot be explained on the basis of a constraint on the minimal size of words, like the foot.
Much of typology can be explained equally well by either factor, making them hard to distinguish empirically.
In (20), we see that aggressive reduplication explains the matchingbackness effect straightforwardly.
Systematic stem selection in (80b) can then be explained in morphophonological terms.
Opponents of the branching rhyme hypothesis argue that many weight phenomena are more adequately and less stipulatively explained using relative moraic content.
Two asymmetries in the process are identified and explained.
The contrast between (32a) and (32b) is explained in terms of a cyclic derivation of stress.
The stabilization of the surface mode of oscillations can be explained as follows.
A portion of these different asset allocations is explained by the liability structure, but another part remains unexplained.
Responses to these questions were also included in the regression, but none of these other variables were significant in explaining non-pension stock ownership.
Correlations of the factors explaining pension fund performance.
An issue then that confronts service providers is how these disparities arise, or how they can be explained.
The three factors explained 41n8 %, 8n9 % and 5n7 % of the variance respectively.
We cannot determine the effect of the magnetic field with this inequality, as explained above.
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