Talk:McGurk effect

You can't articulate a phoneme!

As a linguist, this sort of thing drives me crazy. A phoneme is something that you perceive. It's an abstract categorical distinction. It's not a physical entity, and therefore you can't articulate it, either auditorially or visually. The thing you articulate is called a phone! Argh!

• Guess this is better, then--84.24.117.181 (talk) 12:21, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

I see your point, but just as well as you can't articulate a phoneme, you also can't perceive a phone (without considerable effort). The McGurk effect deals with perception, and it would be inaccurate to talk about "perceiving an intermediate phone". I am inclined to believe that phoneme is the most apt term here. EldKatt (Talk) 19:01, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

How many people DON'T experience the McGurk Effect?

I don't experience the McGurk Effect. I always hear [ba] and see "ga," even the first time I saw it. This is a question I ask all of my linguistics professors, and one that never seems to have an answer. Are there any studies or figures that can be cited here that show how many people are affected, either by percent or something else? I'm curious about the size of the minority I'm apparently a member of. The members of the Ohio State University linguistics department that I've talked to say that they've never even met anybody who didn't experience it, besides me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.187.48.176 (talk) 07:02, 1 March 2011 (UTC)