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context-free grammar

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context-free grammar [′kän‚tekst ‚frē ′gram·ər]
(computer science)
A grammar in which any occurrence of a metavariable may be replaced by one of its alternatives.


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Although you can't deal with a language that has redoubling and duplication using a context-free grammar, and therefore there are certain parsing techniques, familiar in computer scient, that won't work on a language like that," he says, "nevertheless, you can easily devise another technique that will.
controlled by a standard context-free grammar supplied by the
 
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