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NACLO 2014 Problems

Name	Solution	Author
What's the Time in Tallinn?	Solution	Babette Newsome
Māori Loanwords	Solution	Patrick Littell
Levenshtein's Fine Signs	Solution	Blake Allen and Patrick Littell
Wheel of Fortune Cookies	Solution	Patrick Littell
Visible Speech	Solution	Natalie Weber and Patrick Littell
Lontara	Solution	Chelsea Voss
Cameroon Pidgin English	Solution	Aleka Blackwell
Bertrand and Russell	Solution	Ben King
To play or not to play	Solution	Catherine Sheard
Lexicondensed	Solution	Tom McCoy
Don't be Ukhrul to a Liver that's True	Solution	David Mortensen
Transducing Runes	Solution	Jordan Boyd-Graber
Come to Istanbul	Solution	David Palfreyman
Hungarian Rocks	Solution	Adam Hesterberg
CCG	Solution	Jonathan Kummerfeld, Aleka Blackwell, and Patrick Littell
Combining Categories in Tok Pisin	Solution	Jonathan Kummerfeld, Aleka Blackwell, and Patrick Littell
Learning Yidiny	Solution	Mary Laughren
All Round 1 Problems	All Round 1 Solutions
All Round 2 Problems	All Round 2 Solutions

NACLO 2013 Problems

Name	Solution	Author
Intuitive Inuit	Solution	Harold Somers
A Case of Pali	Solution	Babette Verhoeven
The Heads and Tails of Huffman	Solution	John DeNero
Kwak'wala Word Search	Solution	Patrick Littell
Shaw Business	Solution	Babette Verhoeven
Grammar Rules!	Solution	Andrea Schalley and Patrick Littell
Phoenician Fun	Solution	Harold Somers
Twodee	Solution	Jason Eisner
Beja	Solution	Richard Hudson
Stockholms Tunnelbana	Solution	Patrick Littell
Putting the Books in Order	Solution	Dragomir Radev
Yesbot	Solution	Patrick Littell
Playing the Cognate Game	Solution	Catherine Sheard
A Tree by Any Other Name	Solution	John DeNero
Warlpiri Kinship Groups	Solution	Alan Chang
Deer Father	Solution	Patrick Littell
Grice's Grifter Gadgets	Solution	Jordan Boyd-Graber
Poles Apart	Solution	Dragomir Radev
All Round 1 Problems	All Round 1 Solutions
All Round 2 Problems	All Round 2 Solutions

NACLO 2012 Problems

Name	Solution	Author
Cat and Mouse Story	Solution	Patrick Littell
Learn Yolmo with pleasure	Solution	Lauren Gawne
Interstellar First Contact	Solution	Simon Zwarts, based on work by Kevin Knight
All in the Family	Solution	Dragomir Radev
Traevölörs Freisbuk	Solution	Patrick Littell
Crocodile Bardi	Solution	Catherine Sheard
Haitian Creole	Solution	Ivaylo Youmerski
Waorani Numbers	Solution	Dragomir Radev
The silence of the goats	Solution	Alexey Pegushev
Ik heb voorspeld	Solution	Dick Hudson
A fox among the h	Solution	Pat Littell
Who is good?	Solution	Dick Hudson
The Deschamps Codice	Solution	Alexander Piperski
Waanyi	Solution	Mary Laughren
The Little Engine that Could...Read	Solution	Pat Littell and James Pustejovsky
Jeg kan tælle	Solution	Harold Somers
100 Surnames	Solution	Pat Littell
One, Two, Tree	Solution	Noah Smith, Kevin Gimbel, and Jason Eisner
All Round 1 Problems	All Round 1 Solutions
All Round 2 Problems	All Round 2 Solutions

NACLO 2011 Problems

Name	Solution	Author
Running on MT	Solution	Harold Somers
Mix Up on the Farm	Solution	Lori Levin
The War of the Dots	Solution	Patrick Littell
Double or Quit in Caterpillar Country	Solution	Mark Dras
BrokEnglish!	Solution	Patrick Littell
Tiger Tale	Solution	Dragomir Radev
Ulwa Possessives	Solution	Richard Sproat
Counting in Irish	Solution	Tom Payne
A Large Spoon is Enough	Solution	Harold Somers
Axolotl in the Water	Solution	John Berman
A Script for the Ndyuka	Solution	Patrick Littell
Swallow the Salt	Solution	Bozhidar Bozhanov
Word Salad	Solution	Eric Breck
Stopping and Flapping in Warlpiri	Solution	Mary Laughren
All Round 1 Problems	All Round 1 Solutions
All Round 2 Problems	All Round 2 Solutions

NACLO 2010 Problems

Name	Solution	Author
Gelda's House of Gelbelgarg	Solution	Patrick Littell
Say It in Abma	Solution	Cindy Schneider
Lost in Yerevan	Solution	Dragomir R. Radev
Huevos y Pimientos	Solution	Dragomir R. Radev
Texting, Texting, One Two Three	Solution	Patrick Littell
Türkış Delıt	Solution	Bozhidar Bozhanov
Tangkhul Tangle	Solution	David Mortensen
Ardhay Uzzlepay	Solution	John Henderson with the assistance of Sophie Crouch, University of Western Australia. Based on Crouch (2008, 2009) and data from the MPI EVA Minangkabau corpus
Dogs and cats on trees	Solution	Emily Bender
Plains Cree	Solution	Patrick Littell and Julia Workman
F u cn rd ths	Solution	Richard Sproat
Real Money	Solution	Patrick Littell
No smoke without fire	Solution	Aleka Blackwell
Tale of Kieu	Solution	David Mortensen and Patrick Littell
Possessed in Vanuatu	Solution	Jane Simpson, University of Sydney and Jeremy Hammond, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Khipu	Solution	Patrick Littell and Erin Donnelly
All Round 1 Problems	All Solutions
All Round 2 Problems

NACLO 2009 Problems

Name	Solution	Author
Tenji karaoke	Solution	Patrick Littell
Nok-nok!	Solution	Eugene Fink
Letters for Cuzco	Solution	Patrick Littell
You will be laughing	Solution	Bozhidar Bozhanov
Summer Eyes	Solution	Dragomir Radev and Adam Hesterberg
Help my camera!	Solution	Emily Bender
Sk8 Parsr	Solution	Patrick Littell
Linear Combinations	Solution	Richard Sproat
Easy Pieces	Solution	Todor Tchervenkov
Hypo-Hmong-driac	Solution	David Mortensen
The gerbil arrived	Solution	Bozhidar Bozhanov
Yak, Du, Dray	Solution	Dragomir Radev
Orwellspeak	Solution	Jason Eisner
All Round 1 Problems	All Solutions
All Round 2 Problems

NACLO 2008 Problems

Name	Solution	Author
Of monkeys and children	Solution	Ronnie Sim and Thomas Payne
Springing up baby	Solution	Ankit Srivastava and Emily Bender
Reach for the top	Solution	Patrick Littell
Spare the Rod	Solution	Dragomir Radev
A Fish Story	Solution	Patrick Littell
Fakepapershelfmaker	Solution	Willie Costello
Manam, I'm Anam	Solution	Patrick Littell
Thorny Stems	Solution	Eric Breck
aw-TOM-uh-tuh	Solution	Patrick Littell
The Curragh of Kildare	Solution	Todor Tchervenkov
Tzolk'in	Solution	Patrick Littell and Erin Donnelly
The Whole Spectrum	Solution	Adam Hesterberg
All Round 1 Problems	All Round 1 Solutions
All Round 2 Problems	All Round 2 Solutions

NACLO 2007 Problems

Name	Solution	Author
We are all molistic in a way	Solution	Dragomir Radev
Pooh's encyclopedia	Solution	Eugene Fink
A donkey in every house	Solution	Todor Tchervenkov
Hmong	Solution	Ivan Derzhanski
Better sorry than shunk	Solution	Jason Eisner and Roy Tromble
The lost tram	Solution	Boris Iomdin
Rewrite me badd	Solution	Patrick Littell and David Mortensen
This problem is pretty // easy	Solution	Dragomir Radev
All Problems	All Solutions

Student Contributed Problems

Name	Solution	Author
Hebrew	-	Morris Alper
Japanese	-	Morris Alper
Tamil	Solution	Anand Natarajan
Welsh	Solution	Anand Natarajan
Yers	Solutions	Anand Natarajan

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