[Blog Post] Peter Bakker on the VMS

[MichelleL11]

Would considering them all as syllables (both "words" and labels) fix the issue?  



I must admit the wack-a-mole analogy is quite apt and has me a little confused.



I know this contradicts Nick's idea about spaces -- but as the discussion clearly shows something has to give and I would be interested in reactions to this approach.



There is definite precedence for labels in figures beings strung out syllables that add up to a word when taken as a whole.
   

e.g. TONI separate from  TRUA, VO separate from  CES, and FUL separate from GURA in this figure.  Obviously, those who have looked at more manuscripts than I have may have a different opinion, but it doesn't seem rare to me.
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And I can understand Marco's concern with spaces being syllabic rather than word separators given the work he and Emma have done, but I don't think the shown relationships are invalidated merely because the spaces mark syllables rather than full words.  Certainly a good chunk of the separators would still be between whole words -- just not all of them.  Of course, figuring out which is which would be the tricky part, but we knew this was not going to be easy, given the numbers.  Could the relationship analysis be somehow leveraged to try to propose a pattern that shows which spaces are between syllables and which are between words?*

*Note I don't expect an answer for this, I'm just throwing ideas out to get more discussion for better understanding.