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Analysis is presented showing the softening for dc sliding to be consistent with relaxation involving a broad distribution of characteristic times. This distribution is correlated to that for the dielectric function of the stationary state, providing evidence that the pinning forces are not fundamentally different between the stationary and sliding states. Experiments where the CDW was driven by an ac electric field, switched at a frequency f$\\sb{\\rm I}$ from 1 Hz to MHz, showed a non-monotonic dependence of the degree of softening on f$\\sb{\\rm I}$ near 10 kHz accompanied by a peak in internal friction, and recovery of Y towards its value for a stationary CDW at higher frequency. Simultaneously, the amplitude of the overshoot phenomenon was seen to decrease with f$\\sb{\\rm I}$. Such findings indicate the presence of slow dynamical processes which are though to involve relaxations of the CDW phase configuration. 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This distribution is correlated to that for the dielectric function of the stationary state, providing evidence that the pinning forces are not fundamentally different between the stationary and sliding states. Experiments where the CDW was driven by an ac electric field, switched at a frequency f$\\sb{\\rm I}$ from 1 Hz to MHz, showed a non-monotonic dependence of the degree of softening on f$\\sb{\\rm I}$ near 10 kHz accompanied by a peak in internal friction, and recovery of Y towards its value for a stationary CDW at higher frequency. Simultaneously, the amplitude of the overshoot phenomenon was seen to decrease with f$\\sb{\\rm I}$. Such findings indicate the presence of slow dynamical processes which are though to involve relaxations of the CDW phase configuration. 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