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context-free - Said of a grammar where the syntax of each constituent is independent of the symbols occuring before and after it in a sentence. Parsers for such grammars are simpler than those for context-dependent grammars because the parser need only know the current symbol.


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Further, Jenkins, Fuchs, van den Broek, Espin and Deno (2003) compared contextual reading fluency and context-free fluency and found that fluency from contextual reading was more strongly correlated with comprehension (r = .
The Evidence," on the other hand, bases its twist on something that's essentially a bit of a cheat: Each episode, viewers are shown, context-free, the evidence in the crime they're about to see committed and solved.
This relates to finding the mathematics within other contexts, or building context-free relations among different types and areas of knowledge (Hiebert & Lefevre, 1986), as indicated by Gall (E-HS): "It [mathematical understanding] can be considered as adding a mathematical dimension to the concepts in other fields.
 
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