Practice 1

Tuesday, 8 October

Announcements
First practice! Woo! Paintball or Severs Corn Maze on the 27th
At MN Pro Paintball in Lakeville

T-Shirts
Submit any cool ideas you have! These are our ideas Idea 1 Idea 2 Idea 3 Voting for shirts on the 15th! ORDERING SHIRTS ON THE 5th OF NOVEMBER!

What are we doing here?

What have you gotten yourself into?

Linguistics Team!

What is Linguistics Team?

Study language Compete in the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad Do linguistic research Go to conferences/colloquia

We also do more traditionally "fun" stuff...

Parties
Paintball at MN Pro Paintball on Oct. 19

Cool t-shirts

Studying Language
Not a foreign language club.

Practices
Learn about core areas of linguistics Work practice problems

What we'll be working on this year

Oct. 14-21 Oct. 22-29 Nov. 4-5 Nov.11-12 Nov. 18-Dec. 4 Dec. 9 Dec. 10 Dec. 16 Dec. 17 Jan. 6-7 Jan. 13-29 Phonology Morphology Number Systems Writing Systems Syntax Semantics/Pragmatics Sociolinguistics Historical Linguistics Psycholinguistics Review Computational Linguistics

The Olympiad

Types of problems you may encounter...

Phonological Problems
Determine relationship between sounds and writing systems Read spectrograms

Example: "Traevlrs Freisbuk" NACLO 2012, Problem E

Translation Problems
Translate text Translate morphemes Determine syntax

Example: "A Case of Pali" NACLO 2013, Problem B

Number Problems
Translate numbers and expressions Determine numbering systems

Example: "Waorani Numbers" NACLO 2012, Problem H

Writing System Problems

Write text in foreign writing systems

Example: "Lost in Yerevan" NACLO 2010, Problem C

Formal Problems
Model language using formal linguistic means Build trees

Example: "Dogs and cats on trees" NACLO 2010, Problem I

Computational Problems
Perform a task the way a computer would Interpret text as a computer would

Example: "Help My Camera!" NACLO 2009, Problem F

Other Types
Determining historic relationships between languages Associating sentences with images Translating unknown languages from scratch And many other types of problems!

Linguistic Research

Research
Starting this February, we will be launching a linguistic research program

Researching what? How?

Research will be done on Somali through consultation with native speakers

Research with students from other Minnesota linguistics teams

Help create an online database cataloguing our research

Conferences and Colloquia

Colloquia
Fridays at 3:30 in Elliott Hall Room S204 at the University of Minnesota. Leave Jefferson about 2:30.

Conferences
Linguistics Society of America annual meeting: January 2-5, 2014 in Minneapolis, MN Ana will be speaking at this conference about a paper shes working on!

Conferences
Minnesota Undergraduate Linguistics Symposium Mid-April, 2014 at St. Olaf College

Conferences
Chicago Linguistics Society 50 April 10-13, 2014 at the University of Chicago