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What two factors are thought to underlie the secular trend in which the age of menarche dropped from about age 16-17 to age 13 between the 1840s and the 1960s in several Western nations?
 
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Question 2

Shakespeare turned in a paper in his English composition class. The teacher returned it with a note that he needs to work on sentence structure (i.e., the order in which words are placed in a sentence). Which aspect of language is this comment addressing?
 
  a. Phonology
  b. Morphology
  c. Prosody
  d. Syntax



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: The secular trend is thought to be due to a reduction in the effects of disease and improved nutrition over this period of time.

Answer to Question 2

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