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terminal: a standalone construct

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terminal1 CONSTRUCTTerminal symbolCHOMSKY · TERMINAL SYMBOL

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Formal language theory

a symbol of a formal grammar that cannot be rewritten further and appears in the strings the grammar generates.

A symbol of a formal grammar that cannot be rewritten any further: the terminal symbols are the tokens that actually appear in the strings the grammar generates, as opposed to the nonterminal symbols, which stand for structures and can be expanded by the grammar's rules. Chomsky's 1956 Three models for the description of language set out phrase-structure grammars in which rewriting continues until only terminal symbols remain, forming the sentence. The referent is an atomic symbol in the vocabulary of a grammar, defined by its place in the rewriting system, not a transport facility, an I/O device, or a point in a circuit.[1]

Unit
An atomic, non-rewritable symbol in a formal grammar's vocabulary
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Identified by its role in the grammar: it appears in generated strings and never on the left of a rewrite rule

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channel4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructstoken4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructsnode2 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

  1. Chomsky, N. (1956). Three models for the description of language. IRE Transactions on Information Theory, 2(3), 113–124. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIT.1956.1056813

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