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