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• List of all line-initial words

  Oocephalus > 08-03-2017, 02:52 PM

  I promised to do this already a few days ago, but couldn't find time for it. Sorry!
  So here is a list of all line-initial words in the VMS. It's taken from the Takahashi transcription (I haven't checked the accuracy of anything, so there are probably some errors), excluding single-word "lines", most of which are actually labels.
  From left to right, the columns are:
  - the word type
  - number of line-initial occurrences
  - number of all occurrences
  - proportion of occurrences which are line-initial
  
  There are in total 1958 word types, including:
  - 1000 unique ones
  - 114 others that occur only line-initially
  - 844 that are not exclusively line-initial
  
  I hope this will be helpful.

• RE: List of all line-initial words

  Davidsch > 08-03-2017, 04:23 PM

  I've done this already a week ago and much much more  (and published it. Since there are no people interested and I also  I've made some conclusions, I decided to take it offline)
  
  Strange numbers you have. I've used only lines not labels, because you can not call such a text "a line"
  
  I have:
  
  3905 filled lines
  of which from the unique list of words overall 1771 words
  of which with only 1 repeat: 1299
  
  The words that are position-unique were discussed already.

• RE: List of all line-initial words

  Oocephalus > 08-03-2017, 04:32 PM

  Davidsch: I have 4354 lines. Maybe the difference is because there are some labels consisting of several words, which my script would have counted.

• RE: List of all line-initial words

  Davidsch > 09-03-2017, 12:29 AM

  I checked the top of the file and it is identical to my results, with respect to the previous remark.

• RE: List of all line-initial words

  Addsamuels > 28-01-2023, 07:40 PM

  This point is indeed interesting and also it seems that the first word of each page seems to be of less frequent than average
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