Please answer this: Given the following passage  "Catalan is split in two major dialectal blocks: Eastern Catalan, and Western Catalan. The main difference lies in the treatment of unstressed a and e; which have merged to /ə/ in Eastern dialects, but which remain distinct as /a/ and /e/ in Western dialects. There are a few other differences in pronunciation, verbal morphology, and vocabulary.",  answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text.  Question: Where is the difference more clear?
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Answer: Western dialects


Please answer this: Given the following passage  "As the Tokugawa period progressed more value became placed on education, and the education of females beginning at a young age became important to families and society as a whole. Marriage criteria began to weigh intelligence and education as desirable attributes in a wife, right along with physical attractiveness. Though many of the texts written for women during the Tokugawa period only pertained to how a woman could become a successful wife and household manager, there were those that undertook the challenge of learning to read, and also tackled philosophical and literary classics. Nearly all women of the samurai class were literate by the end of the Tokugawa period.",  answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text.  Question: What affect did this have on couples?
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Answer: Though many of the texts written for women during the Tokugawa period only pertained to how a woman could become a successful wife and household manager


Please answer this: Given the following passage  "If conditions change, so that the pope judges it safe to make the appointment public, he may do so at any time. The cardinal in question then ranks in precedence with those raised to the cardinalate at the time of his in pectore appointment. If a pope dies before revealing the identity of an in pectore cardinal, the cardinalate expires.",  answer the following question. Note that the answer is present within the text.  Question: What is the time constraint that a pope can reveal the identity of an in pectore cardinal?
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Answer:
at any time