Let fj be the union of the highest strata down to the jth one.
Within each such region, it was then subdivided into rural-urban strata (>50 000 inhabitants).
Moreover, the evolution of the living standards of the lower strata of the population is in sharp contrast with that of the upper classes.
In the cases they examine, they do not find evidence that the strata required to treat opacity are independently motivated.
The controls were stratum matched for age and recruited in two age strata, 2-11 months and 12-35 months.
Adding strata improves descriptive coverage, but what penalty, if any, does this move exact in restrictiveness, typology, learning and other goals of phonological theory ?
Terms like 'metric dissonance' and 'dissonant strata' suggest that rhythmic conflicts must always be resolved, whether in performance or analysis.
Note, however, that for the data at hand, one way to take the stratification into consideration would be to incorporate strata indicators as covariates.
