(09-05-2024, 09:12 AM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Now Voynichese isn't a language like English, so the term phonotactics may not even be relevant. But still, if you were to count everything that could potentially be formed according to existing bi/trigrams, you're also assuming that there was no good reason why those words were not included in the first place. You'd be saying "they might as well have been there".
And you might be right.
My first generator picked random existing trigrams (including symbols for spaces, starts of lines and ends of lines). It created long words like qopcheododaiin, otchalteedchy with a higher frequency than what exists in the VMs. I could improve it a bit with a parameter that selects a subset of a transliteration to extract trigrams from and a parameter for maximum word length. Apart from the unusual length of some words, I don't know if there is a statistical test that can detect a difference between these generated lines and actual VMs lines.
Setting constraints on bigrams is too crude to model the lack of certain trigrams like "eod" in Q13. Trigrams might be the right size (3) to set constraints on. Plus there is the fact that a horizontal or vertical segment in a grid is defined by 3 coordinates, which is the basis for my zigzag path cipher. Also there are reasons to put glyphs in a particular order that give them a dimensional quality.