Natalia Levshina
Radboud University
Natalia Levshina is an Assistant Professor of Communication and Computational Methods at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She previously worked at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. Dr. Levshina’s active research interests include linguistic typology, corpora, cognitive and functional linguistics. She is known as the author of “How to Do Linguistics with R: Data Exploration and Statistical Analysis” (John Benjamins, 2015). In her book “Communicative Efficiency: Language structure and use” (Cambridge University Press, 2022) she formulates the main principles of communicatively efficient linguistic behaviour and shows how these principles can explain why human languages are the way they are.