Review of The linguistics of the Voynich manuscript by Claire Bowern and Luke Lindemann

2021/05/07 by Torsten Timm, Andreas Schinner · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Intelligence, Security, War Strategy

paper · doi:10.1080/01611194.2021.1911875

openalex publication_date 2021/05/07 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2025/11/06

Abstract

We address severe deficiencies of a recent publication by Claire L. Bowern and Luke Lindemann on the linguistics of the Voynich Manuscript [Annual Review of Linguistics 2021 (7): 285-308].

Citations

• A possible generating algorithm of the Voynich manuscript

Discussions

• I now noticed that you used the corpus of Lindemann & Bowern. Be aware that Bowern and Lindemann used an inadequate parsing method for Wikipedia pages and therefore achieved questionable statistical r [bsky, 1 points, 2 comments]

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