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Fifth annual Babel Lecture
The fifth annual Babel Lecture will be given by Jessica Coon, the linguistic consultant on the Hollywood film Arrival.
If aliens arrived, could we communicate with them? How would we do it? What are the tools that linguists use to decipher unknown languages? How different can human languages be from one another? Do these differences have bigger consequences for how we see the world?
The recent science-fiction film Arrival touches on these and other real questions in the field of linguistic
If aliens arrived, could we communicate with them? How would we do it? What are the tools that linguists use to decipher unknown languages? How different can human languages be from one another? Do these differences have bigger consequences for how we see the world?
The recent science-fiction film Arrival touches on these and other real questions in the field of linguistic
The event will take place on Friday 24 May at Babel's HQ, the University of Huddersfield, and is free to attend for all Babel readers. Jessica's talk will begin at 7.30pm, preceded by a wi
University Of Huddersfield
Queensgate West Yorkshire HD1 3DH
Fri 24 May 2019
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