North American Computational Linguistics Open Competition (NACLO)

 Yale University professor of computer science Dragomir R. Radev

founded the North American Computational Linguistics Open Competition while teaching at the University of Michigan and ran in conjunction with faculty members at the University of Michigan and Carnegie-Mellon University. Winners of its annual competition compete in the International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL) .

The official website is https://www.nacloweb.org/

Dr. Radey's website is http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/radev/

The Facebook page has links to registration and deadlines:

There is an IOL youtube channel with the 2019 competition.

 

Study resources resemble those for the DLAB .

1. https://www.nacloweb.org/practice.php#sample_problems
2. and through Dr. Radey's book, Puzzles in Logic, Languages and Computation ,which the publisher has divided into two parts. The books lists 56 puzzles 

Do the DLAB - Defense Language Aptitude Battery

Morpho-phonemic analysis makes life fun. From what I see, there is plenty of that on the DLAB.

Breeze through the same/different stress part of the test by practicing beforehand. There is a kinetic way to find the stressed syllable in a word. Try playing the rubber band with these English words: https://youtu.be/BXs88kHdcNY?t=21 The next step is to try this with other languages, say compare the stressed syllable in vacation to that in vacaciones . Build your confidence with similar exercises until you can skip checking your answer!