Today we're talking about Arrival! There's a plot summary, a discussion of the linguistic theory that drives the plot, and a fun other effect langauage has on us. Background music is taken from the film. 
Sources/Fun Reads:
- Arrival (2016)
- "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang
- Grammar, Identity, and the Dark Side of the Subjunctive (TedTalk by Phuc Tran)
- “Reasoning Counterfactually in Chinese: Picking up the Pieces” by Yeh and Gentner
- “Linguistic Relativity” by Lera Boroditsky
- “How Do Infants Become Experts at Native-Speech Perception” by Werker, Yeung, and Yoshida

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