Sequential word repetitions in the VMS

[MarcoP]

Another explanation - but I think less likely and covering only a couple of pairs - could be down to how we parse the pair.  e.g. when we see daiin daiin, are those truly identical, or could the "minim" glyphs represent different plain text letters?

Hi Tavie,
this is indeed unlikely also because the rate of perfect and partial reduplication in the manuscript is higher than in scrambled versions of the text. The scrambled version can be seen as representing "accidental" repetitions. The actual text shows more systematic repetitions: there is something that "pushes" identical or similar tokens next to each other. Repetitions cannot be due to the fact that two words "happen" to be written simiilarly like, say "una mia" in black letters (||||a ||||a): such combinations are possible but unlikely.