is held in the USA and in Canada. High school students in New Jersey can participate at the local competition site at 星空无限传媒 University.

The event consists of two rounds:聽
1) Open Round – January 25, 2024
2) Invitational Round – March 14, 2024

To register, please visit

The website also provides all of the competition rules as well as practice problems for students to review.

Open Round: January 25, 2024

Time
The doors will open at 9:30am. You should plan to be present at the contest room by 9:45. You should be seated by 9:55 when the announcements are read. The contest will start at 10:00 AM sharp, and will end 3 hours later at 1:00 PM.

Location
Dickson Hall
1st floor, room 178
星空无限传媒 University

Parking
Visitor parking on campus is available at the Red Hawk Parking Garage.
For information on visitor parking, please visit: /facilities/our-services/parking-services/visitor-parking/

Important Information
鈥⒙� Plan to be at the contest room at least 15 mins before the start of the contest (9:45).
鈥⒙� Please bring your own black pen — all solutions must be written in pen. Scratch paper will be provided.
鈥⒙� You are allowed a basic wristwatch (without built-in calculator) for time keeping. However, no electronic device is 鈥� allowed; phones will need to be powered off during the competition.
鈥⒙� Bring water and snacks to keep yourself fresh and energized during the contest. Place them on the desk before the contest begins.
鈥⒙� When you arrive, place your bags under your seats. You cannot use your bags during the contest.

Top scorers in the Open Round in January will be eligible to compete in an Invitational Round on March 14, 2024. You should be able to view your Open Round score + Invitational Round qualification status on around March 1, 2024.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us:

Lauren Covey, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Linguistics
coveyl@montclair.edu

Jonathan Howell, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Linguistics
howellj@montclair.edu

Anna Feldman, Ph.D.
Professor & Chair, Linguistics
feldmana@montclair.edu

This event is meant to expose high-school students to linguistics, and to increase general awareness of linguistics as an academic discipline. In the competition, students solve analytical problems drawn widely from the world’s languages.

The problems require only general reasoning skills. No special knowledge of linguistics or languages is expected.

The competition will be held on:

January 26, 2023, 10:00AM-1:00PM
Feliciano School of Business
1st floor, Room 140
星空无限传媒 University
Montclair, NJ 07043

(Please, arrive at least 30 minutes before the start time!)

RED HAWK DECK GUEST PARKING:

1. From Normal Avenue — take the College Avenue Entrance 2) Turn onto College Avenue (Main Campus Entrance directly across from 30 East Normal Avenue)
2. Continue on College Avenue as it bends to the left.
3. The Red Hawk Deck Parking Garage will be on your right, adjacent to the Alexander Kasser Theater.
4. Park in the garage and exit the garage from the Fifth Floor.
5. Follow the path straight ahead (soccer field on your left) to the Feliciano School of Business building.

NOTE: when using GPS, use 30 East Normal Avenue, Montclair 07043 | Handicap parking is available in the Red Hawk Deck.

NACLO is held in the USA and in Canada. High school students in New Jersey can participate at the local competition site at 星空无限传媒 University. Students can register for the contest online with the central North American organization:

The principle site聽 has rules and practice problems for students to review, and all the details about the event. See practice problems at .

Linguistics is not usually introduced at the high-school level, so students who enter college are often unaware of it as a choice. Linguistics is the general study of language. It addresses such questions as properties that languages have in common; how language is learned, produced, and understood; how languages change through time and vary across geographic regions or social strata; and the design of language technologies such as speech recognition, machine translation and information retrieval.

NACLO is currently sponsored by the US National Science Foundation, Google, the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), and Cambridge University Press.

Top scorers in the Open Round in January will be eligible to compete in an Invitational Round on March 16, 2023. Winners of that competition will be eligible to participate in the International Linguistics Olympiad (ILO).

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us:

Lauren Covey, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Linguistics
coveyl@montclair.edu

Jonathan Howell, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Linguistics
howellj@montclair.edu

Anna Feldman, Ph.D.
Professor & Chair, Linguistics
feldmana@montclair.edu

All visitors and members of the University community who participate in a campus event must complete Hawk Check before arriving on campus. Masks are optional on campus. Visitors are always welcome to wear a face covering if they wish.

Why study American Sign Language?

• World Language requirement: Courses in American Sign Language satisfy the University鈥檚 World Languages requirement.
• Career objectives: Competency in ASL also acts as a natural complement for students interested in education, human services, as well as a variety of therapeutic and other professional careers, including the arts.
• Cultural enrichment: The Deaf community in the United States is a cultural minority with a rich history and a vibrant language arts tradition, including poetry and prose.
• Linguistic curiosity: Sign languages and spoken languages have many similarities and differences. Studying sign language helps you appreciate the diversity of human language.

Program objectives
The minor in American Sign Language is designed to give students:

• Advanced language knowledge of American Sign Language
• Competence in the linguistic structure of American Sign Language and
• Understanding of the status of American Sign Language as the language of the Deaf cultural minority in the United States

Students will also work with faculty members to develop advanced language skills.

Additional opportunities
Students can also take advantage of extracurricular enrichment through the . Students may also participate in local research and language documentation projects with the and .

Computational linguistics is a growing and dynamic field that combines both linguistics and computer science in developing natural language processing systems that support the interface of communication and computers. This interdisciplinary profession draws from a variety of disciplines teaming computer and cognitive scientists, mathematicians, and logicians with anthropologists, psychologists, philosophers, and linguists.

Beginning in September, 星空无限传媒 University鈥檚 College of Humanities and Social Sciences will begin offering New Jersey鈥檚 first graduate certificate program in computational linguistics. The yearlong program is open to those with undergraduate or work backgrounds in either computer science or linguistics, as well as to those with an unrelated degree (additional coursework may be required).

鈥淭he world has two communication systems鈥攏umbers and words. Computational linguistics converts words into the numbers used by digital systems,鈥� explains Eileen Fitzpatrick, professor and chair of the Department of Linguistics at 星空无限传媒 University.

It is a field that appeals to individuals with a desire to develop cutting-edge tools that have practical applications and benefits in areas such as automated text analysis, speech-recognition, information retrieval, cryptography, among others. Those with related skills are in demand at companies like Google, IBM, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Amazon, the Educational Testing Service, and governmental and civilian organizations.

鈥淐omputational linguistics is developing rapidly with new applications emerging at an amazing pace,鈥� says Anna Feldman, associate professor of linguistics and computer science. These include futuristic-sounding specialties such as 鈥渟entiment analysis鈥� (a method of distilling opinions about products from the mountains of information found in online reviews) and 鈥渄eception detection鈥� (determining if someone is telling the truth or not by analyzing the way language is used).

Additional information can be found online by visiting .