Sequential word repetitions in the VMS

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Some of them (in descending order according to the reoccurrence as sequential repetitions in the text):
daiin daiin (25)
qokedy qokedy (11)
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I know this list is meant to be representative ("some of them") rather than exhaustive, but since Arichichi has been doing some further analysis using it, it's probably also worth citing "chol chol" and "qokeedy qokeedy" as especially common word repetitions.  Exact counts will vary depending on transcription and criteria.

Just a couple other observations, in case they suggest anything in this context:

(1) The most frequent exact-word repetitions also involve the most probable word forms, in the sense that each glyph within each one is followed by the glyph that most frequently follows it in either Currier A (chol, daiin) or Currier B (qokeedy), as long as we ignore spaces and calculate first the probability of any following [i] or [e] and, secondarily, the probability of a specific quantity of [i] or [e].  I haven't tried to follow this idea through for the whole list of exact repetitions -- just for the most frequent word in each of Torsten's "series" (ol, daiin, chedy).  But those top-scoring examples suggest that the more probable a word form itself is in the terms I've described, the more likely it also is to occur twice in a row.

(2) Exact-word repetitions are found more often in the middle of lines rather than at (or across) their boundaries, consistent with Emma's hypothesis about line-start and line-end transformations -- although doubled words sometimes appear at the beginning or end of a line.  Marco presents some useful statistics about this earlier in the current thread.  Cases of three or more exact-word repetitions in a row are always in the middle of the line and never touch one or the other edge.