DESCRIBING SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS

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SYNTAX

The __________ of a programming language is the form of its expressions, statements, and program units

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SEMANTICS

refers to the meaning of the expressions, statements, and program units.

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SENTENCES

The strings of a language are called

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IDENTIFIERS

the names of variables, methods, classes, and so forth in a programming language form a group called

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LEXEMES

Small syntactic units known as _________ are used in programming languages to represent numeric literals, operators, and special words.

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TOKENS

These lexemes are divided into ________ , which represent groupings of identifiers

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LANGUAGE RECOGNIZER

A recognition device determines whether input strings are part of the language by reading them over the alphabet

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LANGUAGE GENERATOR

A device that generates language sentences