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Suggested websites to visit to help you prepare for the competition:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  1. The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS)<\/a>\u00a0is a large database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials (such as reference grammars) by a team of\u00a055 authors<\/a>\u00a0(many of them the leading authorities on the subject).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Linguistics Problems from the First International Olympiad<\/a>\u00a0(with solutions)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Linguistic puzzles online with solutions (from U of Oregon)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Samples of international level problems<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. MIT Open Courseware. Introduction to Linguistics class notes<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. North American LO sample problems<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. NACLO 2011 First and Second Round Problems<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. More NACLO Practice Problems<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. Writing systems<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. Language of the world<\/a>\u00a0(reliable information)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  11. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Information about linguistics:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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    1. The Linguistic Society of America<\/a>\u00a0(with answers to questions about majoring in linguistics, jobs in linguistics, etc.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. American Dialect Society<\/a>\u00a0(fun website)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. Corpora of contemporary American English, historical American English, and others<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    4. Speech Accent Archive<\/a>\u00a0(wonderful resource of accents of native and non-native speakers of English)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    5. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Blogs about language:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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      1. http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/<\/a>\u00a0(posts by professional linguists)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      2. http:\/\/linguistlessons.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      3. http:\/\/www.languagehack.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      4. http:\/\/www.invesp.com\/blog-rank\/Linguistics<\/a>\u00a0(Top 25 linguistics blogs)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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