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| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5142 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 9 of 9 27 April 2015 at 5:39pm | IP Logged |
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I had a recent experience where I heard a Catalan conversation and thought it was Spanish until one of them said to me "so, you understand Catalan?". Although they're related languages, they have very obvious differences, yet I only noticed these on hindsight. I'd agree that it's what robarb describes - the brain gets so much information that it has to filter a lot of it out and focus on what it believes is important, which in this case was the meaning. Moreover, I knew that both people were from Spain but I hadn't realised they were both Catalan, so my brain had been expecting them to speak Spanish and probably fit what it was hearing to that model.
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