VM TTR values

[MarcoP]

Hi Nablator, I don't think I ever looked into the gallows-sequences you mention, but I am aware that perfect reduplication is a special case of a more general phenomenon. Timm and Schinner described it quite clearly in my opinion:

The closer two words are (with respect to their edit distance), the more likely these words also can be found written in close vicinity (i.e. on the same page).

Another example of the more general phenomenon is quasi-reduplication (consecutive words with edit-distance=1) which in the VMS occurs in about 2% of consecutive word pairs. Anyway, perfect reduplication has the most direct impact on MATTR, while other cases involve different (though similar) word types. But of course what Timm and Schinner describe cannot occur in a randomly shuffled text.