[Tex/LaTex] Indenting Text in Beamer

beamerhorizontal alignment

I am attempting to indent text, as below.
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To get the alignment right (and it's far from perfect right now), I've been using trial and error with a linebreak \\ and \hspace{3.1cm}. Is there a legitimate way to get the results in the image above?

As a minimum working example, I have

    \documentclass[12pt,mathserif]{beamer} 
    \usetheme{Berkeley}
    \usecolortheme{dove}
    \useinnertheme{default}
    \setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{} 
    \setbeamertemplate{itemize items}[default]
    \setbeamertemplate{enumerate items}[default]

    \beamertemplatenavigationsymbolsempty
    \setbeamerfont{footline}{size=\fontsize{9}{11}\selectfont}
    \setbeamertemplate{footline}[page number]

    \begin{document}
    \frame{\frametitle{Detecting MWEs in Typed Text}
    \begin{itemize}
    \item $\mathbf{Assumption \;1}$: MWEs have unique prosodic\\
        \hspace{3.1cm}characteristics
    \item $\mathbf{Assumption \;2}$: KD is the reflection of prosody in\\
        \hspace{3.1cm}typing
    \item $\mathbf{Conclusion}$: \hspace{0.5cm}MWEs should be uniquely\\
        \hspace{3.1cm}characterized in typing
    \end{itemize}
    }
\end{document}

Best Answer

Such an alignment is easy when using a tabular:

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\documentclass{beamer}% http://ctan.org/pkg/beamer
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\begin{tabular}{@{\textbullet~}l@{\ }p{2in}}
  \bfseries Assumption 1: & MWEs have unique prosodic characteristics \\
  \bfseries Assumption 2: & KD is the reflection of prosody in typing \\
  \bfseries Conclusion:   & MWEs should be uniquely characterized in typing
\end{tabular}
\end{frame}
\end{document}

If you don't want to measure the right column width (currently fixed at 2in), then you can use a tabularx instead. Also, array could be used to aid in formatting the first column to \bfseries automatically, if needed. Here's an example incorporating both with a raggedright second column:

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\documentclass{beamer}% http://ctan.org/pkg/beamer
\usepackage{array,tabularx}% http://ctan.org/pkg/{array,tabularx}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{@{\textbullet~}>{\bfseries}l@{\ }>{\raggedright\arraybackslash}X@{}}
  Assumption 1: & MWEs have unique prosodic characteristics \\
  Assumption 2: & KD is the reflection of prosody in typing \\
  Conclusion:   & MWEs should be uniquely characterized in typing
\end{tabularx}
\end{frame}
\end{document}