LINGUIST List 10.161

Wed Feb 3 1999

FYI: Mathematical linguistic contest

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  • Ivan A Derzhanski, Lx Contest

    Message 1: Lx Contest

     Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 12:23:47 -0800
    From: Ivan A Derzhanski <iadmath.bas.bg>
    Subject: Lx Contest


    The 18th Winter Mathematical Competitions for Bulgarian high school students were held in Varna on 29-31 January. As in all but the first few years, they included contests in computer science and linguistics as well as mathematics. As last year, I was invited to put together the test for the contest in linguistics and be the judge and jury.

    The 18 contestants from 6 Bulgarian cities had to solve three problems, each of which required them to analyse data from an unknown language, taking notice of certain relevant facts, and then to transcribe or translate a set of test words and phrases. This year's problems involved the Cree syllabary, Hausa morpho- (phono)logy and Sino-Korean compounding.

    Reports on the contest in both Bulgarian and English including the problems and solutions and the contestants' performance will be published in due course. Meanwhile the Bulgarian text of the problems and solutions is available from me in PostScript format or on paper. If you are interested, do let me know.



    Ivan A Derzhanski http://www.math.bas.bg/~iad/ H cplx Iztok bl 91, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria iadmath.bas.bg W Dept for Math Lx, Inst for Maths & CompSci, Bulg Acad of Sciences