27-09-2020, 10:19 AM
(It's Zipf, not Ziph).
As I understand it, the Zipf prediction line for any two corpus will roughly correspond, assuming they are of roughly the same size.
In You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.this is shown by overlaying randomly selected texts of the same size from 50 different languages.
From the authors conclusions:
Questions to ask:
Are the corpus of the same aprox size?
Is there a hierarchy within the VMS that corresponds to the hierarchy of the Biblical texts?
What about the botanical imagery?
Quote:The same Voynich Vords are always used for the same Latin wordsWell, that should be easy to test. Count the word frequencies both texts, sort and see if we get a general match.
As I understand it, the Zipf prediction line for any two corpus will roughly correspond, assuming they are of roughly the same size.
In You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.this is shown by overlaying randomly selected texts of the same size from 50 different languages.
From the authors conclusions:
Quote:our work has found that Zipf’s laws in 50 languages all share a 3-segment structural pattern, with the lower segment invariably bending downward to deviate from theoretical expectation, and each segment demonstrating distinctive linguistic properties and different biases in use.
Questions to ask:
Are the corpus of the same aprox size?
Is there a hierarchy within the VMS that corresponds to the hierarchy of the Biblical texts?
What about the botanical imagery?