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What Linguistics Can Tell Us about Talking to Aliens

What Linguistics Can Tell Us about Talking to Aliens

Linguist Sheri Wells-Jensen explains the pitfalls in our assumptions about extraterrestrials

By Adam Mann

In the 2016 blockbuster film Arrival, aliens with inscrutable motives descend on Earth — and it is up to a scientist played by Amy Adams to help communicate with them. Were this to…