Using the file as provided, I got the following token counts. I used Emma's system but I did decide to give benches complete vowel status.
Compared to Emma's results, there is a considerable shift upwards, which is logical since I always took benches as syllable-forming. Even with this addition, words of over three syllables only make up some 7% of the corpus. The "6+" category looks mostly like the kind of examples we discussed above.
One conclusion remains that Voynichese words are "too short" rather than "too long".
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6+syl: 0% 149
5 syl: 1% 309
4 syl: 6% 2052
3 syl: 27% 10021
2 syl: 43% 16008
1 syl: 22% 7982Compared to Emma's results, there is a considerable shift upwards, which is logical since I always took benches as syllable-forming. Even with this addition, words of over three syllables only make up some 7% of the corpus. The "6+" category looks mostly like the kind of examples we discussed above.
One conclusion remains that Voynichese words are "too short" rather than "too long".