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Research note explores vowel-run length effects on prefix construction in the Voynich manuscript's root family, indicating significant rule implications.
This research note presents evidence of a clean, monotonic dose-response relationship between vowel-run length and prefix-construction pathways within the Voynich manuscript's most frequent root family. Specifically, as the root morpheme -edy is doubled to -eedy and tripled to -eeedy, its rate of combination with direct prefixes (ch-, sh-) drops from 33.6% down to a zero-exception 0.0%, while layered prefix classes remain compatible. This quantitative rule provides a unifying explanation for an asymmetry previously identified as an unresolved gap in Jorge Stolfi's 2000 foundational grammar of the manuscript
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