I'm looking for a list of the 10-20 most frequent sentence-initial words in
1) French formal written language (e.g., business correspondence),
2) French informal written language (e.g., personal letters).
I've looked at a small sample of Le Monde (27.000 bigrams) and come up with
the following list (with the number of occurrences following the word):
a 8
ce 6
ces 6
cette 6
dans 7
de 6
des 6
elle 6
en 7
il 6
la 7
le 7
les 7
on 5
par 7
pour 7
quant 5
si 7
un 6
une 6
I'd be greatful for any help.
Best regards,
Alice Carlberger
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Alice Carlberger
Royal Institute of Technology
Department of Speech, Music and Hearing
Box 70014
S-100 44 Stockholm
Sweden
E-mail: alice@speech.kth.se
Phone: +46 8 790 75 62
Fax: +46 790 78 54
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