Inside the Voynich Network: graph analysis

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Your reciprocity is at odds with Marke Fincher's (2008) findings on word reversibility, where he found that Voynichese has weaker word order (ie higher reciprocity) than several natural languages

Fincher’s word reversibility looks at whether a word pair appears in both orders in the text (A B and B A). It measures flexibility in word order and found that Voynichese allows more reversals than normal languages.

My reciprocity is different: it works on the co-occurrence network, not on word order. It checks whether two words are linked in both directions within the network of words that tend to appear together. Low reciprocity means that most associations go one way only, suggesting fixed or mechanical patterns rather than flexible syntax.