Masato to Saarbrücken

Postdoctoral research position with Matthew Crocker.

Congratulations to Masato Nakamura, who heads to Saarland University for a postdoctoral research position with Matthew Crocker in the Department of Language Science and Technology, following completion of his dissertation here at Maryland, "Generating and measuring predictions in language processing," under the supervision of Colin Phillips.

Saarbrücken lies on the Saar river, which separates it from France, in particular from the Department of Moselle within the region of Lorraine. The local language, which sits just south of the was-wat isogloss, is a variety of Rhenish Franconian, and conveniently for Masato, in the dialects of Saarland, the sentence meaning 'my house is green' (namely, "Mei Haus is grien") is pronounced almost identically to its English equivalent, differing only in the "r". You're off to a head start, Masato!