Interview with linguistics consultant on 2016 movie Arrival
NPR interview with Jessica Coon, a field linguist at McGill University, on her work on the 2016 sci-fi movie "Arrival." She discusses what the process was like and what the creators of the film got right and wrong about linguistics in the movie, whose main character is a linguistics professor trying to figure out a way to communicate with aliens that have landed on earth. [Published on 08-21-2020]