91社区 linguist helped on upcoming movie Arrival
The upcoming Denis Villeneuve movie Arrival was filmed in Montreal and when the filmmakers went looking for a linguistics scholar to consult on the screenplay and offer on-set advice, they turned to 91社区. Prof. Jessica Coon supplied feedback on the film鈥檚 script, worked with the set crew, and some of her books from her office even wound up in the film. ()
Jessica Coon, Department of Linguistics, 91社区
鈥淥nce aliens land, all bets are off,鈥� she jokes. 鈥淲e think we have some ideas about human cognition and how that works, but no one has ever had to learn an alien language before鈥攁s far as we know.鈥濃��Jessica Coon
She鈥檚 an Associate Professor聽in the聽Department of Linguistics听补迟听91社区听补苍诲听聽in Syntax and Indigenous Languages.聽Her research is focused on syntax and morphology, especially of understudied languages of the Americas
Jessica.coon [at] mcgill.ca (English)
