06-03-2025, 01:24 PM
The autocorrelation of word lengths was discussed in two recent papers:
* V. Matlach, B. A. Janečková, and D. Dostál, “The Voynich manuscript: Symbol roles revisited,”
* D. Gaskell and C. Bowern, "Gibberish after all? Voynichese is statistically similar to humanproduced samples of meaningless text"
* V. Matlach, B. A. Janečková, and D. Dostál, “The Voynich manuscript: Symbol roles revisited,”
* D. Gaskell and C. Bowern, "Gibberish after all? Voynichese is statistically similar to humanproduced samples of meaningless text"
Quote:Word lengths in most meaningful texts are negatively autocorrelated: that is, long words tend to be interspersed with short words (long-short-long-short). By contrast, the VMS exhibits positive autocorrelation (long-long-short-short). Positive autocorrelation is only observed in a limited number of natural languages...
