[Talk] Upcoming VMS lecture in NYC

[Koen G]

Depending on your mother tongue though, if you were writing down what you hear in an unknown language, some entropy could disappear. For example, Dutch speakers would assimilate th-sounds with [d] and [t] in English, thereby removing some variation from the phoneme pool.

In Voynichese though, the lack of variation is in positional options. It is very predictable where a glyph can occur. This is a problem that needs to be addressed, but I fail to see how it can be fully explained by positing a spoken source.