28-04-2022, 04:51 PM
(27-04-2022, 02:26 AM)kckluge wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.* With regard to the whole are "words" _words_ issue -- I've seen lots of papers talk about Voynich "words" and Zipf's (word frequency vs word frequency rank) Law. There is a different Zip's Law relating word length vs word frequency rank -- more frequent words are also shorter (a ref for anyone wanting to pull on that thread is You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.) -- has anyone every fit that vs. the Voynich vocabulary?
Well, this is mildly embarrassing -- I looked at the paper I cited and realized I was confused. The "other" Zipf's Law it's talking about is total relative frequency of all words (tokens, not types) of length L vs L -- so the binomial word length studies that compare "Voynichese" with natural languages have (implicitly or explicitly) looked at this.
Mea culpa.