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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 20 April 2015 08:02:03PM -1 points [-]

Studies of language comprehension indicate that people quickly recode much of what they hear into an abstract representation that...

contains few traces of the actual spoken language (at least if you are a competent speaker).