-JKP- > 01-07-2019, 12:07 PM
nablator > 01-07-2019, 12:12 PM
Gordon Rugg Wrote:All real languages have regularities in word order. In English, ‘I drink coffee’ is a grammatically accurate sentence but ‘coffee drink I’ isn’t. But the words in the Voynich Manuscript You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. in their order.
Anton > 01-07-2019, 01:55 PM
nablator > 01-07-2019, 02:17 PM
Anton > 01-07-2019, 03:19 PM
nablator > 01-07-2019, 05:04 PM
(01-07-2019, 03:27 PM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The claim about word groups is something I also something I find very interesting. Nablator, could your TTR code be modified for this purpose?
Koen G > 01-07-2019, 05:13 PM
Torsten > 01-07-2019, 05:16 PM
(01-07-2019, 05:04 PM)nablator Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(01-07-2019, 03:27 PM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The claim about word groups is something I also something I find very interesting. Nablator, could your TTR code be modified for this purpose?
Which claim exactly?
There are 2400+ different adjacent word couples that are repeated, some of them many times. I don't know how much of this can be attributed to chance. I have not studied this.
About reversibility of word pairs, at least for the top of the above list, it seems to me at first glance that most are not as likely to appear in one order as in the opposite order and the differences in counts are often large.
For example:
59 or aiin
7 aiin or
28 ol chedy
3 chedy ol
Koen G > 01-07-2019, 05:26 PM
Torsten > 01-07-2019, 05:35 PM
(01-07-2019, 05:26 PM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I just noticed there was another thread about this already before: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
I now have a sizable corpus of medieval texts so it could be interesting to test this. Do texts really need to contain many repeating "more than three words" sequences in order to be real?
Marco referred to Julian Bunn's post for VM data: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.