Lecture 8

Learning objectives

After this class, you should be able to:

1. Define the following: left linear grammar, right linear grammar, and regular grammar.
2. Prove that right linear grammars generate regular languages.
3. Given a linear grammar and a sentence, show the derivation of the sentence.
4. Given a linear grammar, describe its language and construct a regular expression and a NFA for it.

Reading assignment

1. Section 3.3.
2. Lecture 8-9 slides on Blackboard.

Exercises and review questions

• Exercises and review questions on current lecture's material
  1. Section 3.3, exercise #1.
  2. Section 3.3, exercise #2.

• Questions on next lecture's material
  1. None.

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Last modified: 29 Dec 2013