Are perfect-reduplication and quasi-reduplication related?

[MarcoP]

A random thought about reduplication: if you interleaved two texts in the same language, might this reproduce some of the reduplication properties we see in the VM? What I mean is: first word of text A, first word of text B, second word of text A, and so on. Both texts would remain perfectly legible. Probably large-window TTR would not change much either. But it might mess with narrow-window phenomena (i.e. reduplication, a.b.a sequences...).

Hi Koen,
if I understand correctly, that would result in a reduplication rate comparable with a scrambled text: in the mixed texts, reduplication would be casual, as in a scrambled text. On the other hand, reduplication in the VMS is about twice more frequent than if words are randomly re-arranged (see graph You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.). Also, Voynich reduplication is selective, e.g. 'daiin' reduplicates and 'aiin' does not: it does not seem to be random.