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Illustrated with rich examples, this book shows how language users can save effort by choosing efficient structures and word order.
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Natalia Levshina is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Neurobiology of Language department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. She is the author of the best-selling book How to Do Linguistics with R (2015).
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