Syllabification

[Helmut Winkler]

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.

That is not necessarily true. A Voynich word is not a word in a linguistic sense, whatever it may be.