[Article] Glyph combinations across word breaks in the Voynich Manuscript

[MarcoP]

You argue that the results in your paper are not final and everything is open to further discussion. You even say "We are not in a position to refute the idea that the manuscript is non-linguistic and we don't claim to be." So what do you want to say you’ve done?

I believe the last sentence of the pre-print is a good summary: 

We would like to suggest that the existence of word break combinations provides some support for the possibility that the Voynich text is written phonetically in a language. We also believe that information gleaned from further study of word break combinations could help to identify the sound values of the glyphs in which the text is written.

In other words, a few aspects of the word-break combinations phenomenon find parallel in written languages, suggesting that Voynichese is phonetic. While "phonetic" is strongly correlated with "linguistic", it needn't necessarily be.
I am not aware of other explanations for word-break combinations, but of course I am open to discussing them. Shouldn't I be?

We have shown the relation between word-break combinations and the results of Guy's and Rene's research about possible vowels / consonants: the roles played by different glyphs "inside" words and at word boundaries are similar. This links Currier's initial observation about the phaenomenon with the work of other researchers. I see this both as a step forward in Voynich research and a tribute to what others have done.