Language Acquisition in Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang - Short Story Summary, Analysis

Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! We look at "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang today. This was the novella that inspired the 2016 movie Arrival. It dealt with fascinating concepts in language acquisition, writing, and more in this Sci-Fi story.

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Linguistic Relativity (Sapir-Whorf hypothesis)-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity

TV and Language Acquisition:

https://www.firstthingsfirst.org/first-things/television-videos-dont-help-young-children-learn-new-words/#:~:text=Watching%20television%20or%20videos%20%E2%80%93%20even,people%2C%20not%20TV%20or%20videos.

Hearing Sounds as a Baby: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK11007/

Hear vs Think: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-biolinguistic-turn/201702/how-the-language-we-speak-affects-the-way-we-think

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