k/t gallows reduplication

[MarcoP]

The plot is only qualitatively comparable with Patrick's, since benched gallows cth ckh are excluded from his plot but included in mine.

For what it's worth, my corresponding plot in that paper likewise includes the benched gallows -- it uses the same selection criteria as the preceding Table 3, which I should probably have clarified.

Thank you, Patrick! I thought benched gallows were excluded because Y values are quite lower in your plot than in mine (~30% vs ~45% for k+t in the first bin; 'k' average ~22% vs ~30%); there must be some other reason for this difference, but I cannot guess what it might be.

I suppose one line of speculation might be that the "preferences" of [k] and [t] for different parts of the line increase the probability of continuous blocks of text occurring in which only one or the other of these glyphs appears -- but of course it's frustratingly difficult to tell what's the cause and what's the effect.

This seems likely to apply to shorter sequences, while I am not sure that line preferences can have an impact on sequences that span several lines. Both phenomena are suggestive of rules for Voynichese word-order but, as you say, their relationship is difficult to grasp. If these are the bricks of Voynichese grammar, something they have in common is that they don't look like the grammar of natural languages.