Syllabification

[Anton]

Taking the script at its face value can be put under a very simple test. Let one take the most frequent word - daiin (or any other high-freq word). And then let him match this word or words with the pool of most frequent words in other contemporary works and see if he succeeds.

  I don't think there is reason to believe that Voynich 'words' are identical with words in a natural language

Hmm, if we take a script for its face value, then we expect that the chunks of symbols represent words, do we not? Because that's the function that a script fulfils in language.

Those chunks may be words abbreviated or non-abbreviated, but they should be words, within the framework of the "face value" assumption.