Workshop: The International Linguistics Olympiad

吸引和培训新的语言学学生是满足国家对语言和交际研究的需求的关键。该奖项将为两队美国高中生参加将于2016年7月25日至7月29日在印度迈索尔举行的第14届国际语言学奥林匹克大赛提供旅行支持。100多名世界上最聪明、最有动力的高中生将齐聚一堂，参加语言学奥林匹克大赛。美国队由四名学生组成，在2016年北美计算语言学奥林匹克竞赛(NACLO)中名列前茅。国际语言学奥林匹克竞赛为学生提供了对语言学的科学方法以及对语言的记录和分析的实践体验。与数学和科学奥林匹克竞赛不同，数学和科学奥林匹克竞赛侧重于学生已经掌握的材料，而语言学奥林匹克竞赛通过学生不熟悉的语言的逻辑谜题引入新材料。在解谜的过程中，学生可以发现一种语言的语法或发音，它的概念系统，它的相关文化，或它与其他语言的历史关系。除了培养对人类语言和文化多样性的洞察外，这项比赛还培养元语言推理，这对计算机科学、语言技术乃至任何涉及分析问题解决技能和提出数据支持的逻辑论点的职业都是必不可少的。

Attracting and training new students in linguistics is essential to meeting the nation's needs for research in language and communication. This award will provide travel support for two teams of American high school students to participate in the 14th International Linguistics Olympiad, which will take place in Mysore, India, from July 25th through July 29th, 2016. More than 100 of the world's brightest and most motivated high school students will gather for the Linguistics Olympiad. The American teams, each comprised of four students, were top finishers in the 2016 North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO). The International Linguistics Olympiad provides students with a hands-on experience of the scientific approach to linguistics and the documentation and analysis of language. Unlike math and science Olympiads, which focus on material that students have already mastered, linguistics Olympiads introduce new material through logic puzzles in languages unfamiliar to the students. In the course of solving a puzzle, the students can discover something about the grammar or sounds of a language, its conceptual system, its associated culture, or its historical relationship to other languages. In addition to fostering insight into human linguistic and cultural diversity, this competition fosters meta-linguistic reasoning that is essential for computer science, language technologies, and indeed any career involving analytical problem-solving skills and the ability to present a logical argument supported by data.