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If you were to look at the wave form of a sentence on a oscilloscope, there would not be little silences between the words the way there are little bits of white space in printed words on a page, but rather a continuous ribbon in which the end of one word leads right to the beginning of the next.

It's something that we're aware of when we listen to speech in a foreign language when we have no idea where one word ends and the other one begins.

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear, Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy, was he?

Source: Steven Pinker, Professor of Psychology, Harvard University