Pre-registration: Is the Linear A / Linear B Morphological Gap a Word-Length Artefact? (Phase 22.B).

Locked pre-registration for Phase 22.B. Phase 22 showed that length-matched resampling can reverse the sign of a word-final vowel comparison between corpora with different word-length profiles. This phase re-tests the project's strongest prior finding — the Linear A vs Linear B word-final -o gap (8.7% vs 49.6%) — stratified by word length, with a within-Greek yardstick control. Hypotheses, metrics, thresholds and the full verdict table, including the pre-declared retraction condition, were fixed before any test statistic was computed. Deposit includes the deterministic runner, SHA-256 checksums and OpenTimestamps proofs. No results. LOCK STATEMENT: this record's publication date and the accompanying OpenTimestamps proofs constitute the lock; the status line inside the .md file predates deposit and was left unedited so the proofs remain valid. SHA-256 of 170_phase22B_prereg_v1.md: 506b997adb2ae54a16bc52be13e489a7a50185b4be0752f66ce8c0b39f23819b.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Published
2026-09-14
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22742992
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Phonetics and Phonology Research
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Pre-registration: Is the Linear A / Linear B Morphological Gap a Word-Length Artefact? (Phase 22.B).

Christos Papanikolaou
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Phonetics and Phonology Research
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Pre-registration: Is the Linear A / Linear B Morphological Gap a Word-Length Artefact? (Phase 22.B).

Christos Papanikolaou
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Abstract

Locked pre-registration for Phase 22.B. Phase 22 showed that length-matched resampling can reverse the sign of a word-final vowel comparison between corpora with different word-length profiles. This phase re-tests the project's strongest prior finding — the Linear A vs Linear B word-final -o gap (8.7% vs 49.6%) — stratified by word length, with a within-Greek yardstick control. Hypotheses, metrics, thresholds and the full verdict table, including the pre-declared retraction condition, were fixed before any test statistic was computed. Deposit includes the deterministic runner, SHA-256 checksums and OpenTimestamps proofs. No results. LOCK STATEMENT: this record's publication date and the accompanying OpenTimestamps proofs constitute the lock; the status line inside the .md file predates deposit and was left unedited so the proofs remain valid. SHA-256 of 170_phase22B_prereg_v1.md: 506b997adb2ae54a16bc52be13e489a7a50185b4be0752f66ce8c0b39f23819b.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Phonetics and Phonology Research
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