“…If we decided, for example, that the pattern C in Figure 5 could by no means cluster with E and F, this may well be premature before we have figured out whether the two patterns (u-u-u-u vs. u-u-u-au) are complementary and what phonetic environments explain their complementarity. 13 For automatic cognate detection, compare for example List (2014), List, Greenhill, and Gray (2017), Arnaud, Beck, and Kondrak (2017), and Jäger, List, and Sofroniev (2017), and for automatic phonetic alignment, compare Prokić, Wieling, and Nerbonne (2009) and List (2014). 14 For manual annotation of cognates and alignments, compare List (2017).…”