8. A syntactic analyzer for recognizing a series of words as one of a set of syntactically allowable sequences of prescribed words according to claim 7 further comprising means operative in each word position interval responsive to each word position sequence first signal for storing the initial state code and the prescribed word code of said sequence first signal, and wherein said sequence identifying means comprises means responsive to the third signals of the selected sequences for identifying the final state of the selected sequence having the minimum last word position third signal, and means responsive to said identified final state and the stored initial state codes for forming a signal representative of the identified sequence from said stored prescribed words.
7. A syntactic analyzer for recognizing a series of words as one of a set of syntactically allowable sequences of prescribed words according to claim 6 wherein said combining means comprises means for adding the sequence word position selected second signal and the preceding word position third signal for said sequence to produce the word position third signal for said sequence.