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Christian Bentz

Christian Bentz, Dr.

  • Postdoctoral researcher SNSF Text Group
Phone
+41 (0) 44 63 40222
Address
Freiestrasse 16, 8032 Zürich
Room number
FRF E 2

Christian joined the URPP Language and Space in October 2018. He is postdoctoral researcher in the SNSF funded project Non-randomness in Morphological Diversity: A Computational Approach Based on Multilingual Corpora. This involves building and analyzing a text collection for 100 typologically diverse languages. His research interests include the application of information-theoretic principles to natural languages, as well as developing quantitative methods to explain language change and diversity. His broad research areas include quantitative linguistics, corpus linguistics, linguistic typology, and language evolution.

Education

2012-2016

University of Cambridge

    PhD in Computation, Cognition and Language

2011-2012

University of Cambridge

    MPhil in English and Applied Linguistics

2004-2010

University of Heidelberg

    MA in German Linguistics, Philosophy and Macroeconomics

 

Publications

Please visit Christians's website to see a list of publications.