Are perfect-reduplication and quasi-reduplication related?

[MarcoP]

Marco: but if the VM uses more patterns more consistently than any known language or similarly sized text so far, what could we learn by normalizing its supposed spelling variations/errors?

I think that, even if the manuscript is meaningful, spelling is likely inconsistent, as is the case with other manuscripts. I am not sure that there is anything to learn.

This would drop large-window MATTR, but that is no problem, it would probably still be well within acceptable levels. But in small-window patterns, it would only widen the gap between Voynichese and other languages, right? 

I think so.

Or are you rather thinking about patterns of vocabulary related to similar contexts?

Most identifiable features in the manuscript, like reduplication and quasi-reduplication, Grove words, line-effects, appear problematic. Maybe a lower MATTR would make it possible to find something closer to grammatical patterns. Normalization across dialects could make shared structures detectable. But of course this is all pure speculation.