Number of syllables distribution

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I'm now taking a look at Middle Dutch, as another point of reference. I took 4000 words from Van den vos Reynaerde. 

What surprised me was the shortage of words over 4 syllables. The only real 5-syllable word I got was verbolghenlike, "angrily". This is a three syllable root word with a common two-syllable affix. Another is Babylonien (the "ie" is two syllables in this case), which is essentially a foreign word.

Moving to four-syllable words, again these are only about 1% of all tokens, which is a stunningly low amount. Almost all of them are composite, or with a common affix.

The graph below shows the 1-5+ syllable distribution for types in Latin, my VM count, Emma's VM count and Middle Dutch. I present them in this order for a reason, as you will see:

   

My count often sticks close to Latin. I always counted benches and eee-clusters as syllable-forming, so there are fewer one-syllable types. 
Emma's original system on the other hand, is closer to Middle Dutch than to Latin: a large proportion of two-syllable types, with fewer three and over.

If you take the Latin and Dutch (blue and green) as extremes, then you see than our Voynichese counts tend to stay in between. 
It's also worth pointing out that Jacques Guy's results (which I did not include for readability of the graph) sit right in between Emma's and mine, so also between Latin and Dutch.

So at this point I would tentatively suggest a conclusion: if we rely on vowels pointed out by previous research, then Voynichese does not display abnormal syllable distribution.