Re: Cool phonetic illusion

On Jun 21, 2008, at 8:48 PM, Lars Finsen wrote:

> Den 21. jun. 2008 kl. 19.22 skrev Dirk Elzinga:
>> This is the McGurk effect. It is well known in psycholinguistic
>> circles. It is done by dubbing the audio of [ba] to the video of
>> [ga]. Field linguists (like me) have no advantage over the
>> layperson here. It's just weird, and, if the psycholinguists are
>> right, constitutes evidence that vision plays a significant role
>> in speech perception.
>
> Second time I tried it, I did it without looking first, and THEN I
> heard "baba baba". But then I looked and heard "dada", which didn't
> go away even if I looked away again. I feel hexed.
It sort of sounded like /gb)/ to me, whether I was looking or not,
although when I was watching I guess it sounded more like /g/ than /
gb)/.