Linguistic phylogenies are commonly inferred from abstract cognate classifications that encode relationships among lexemes. Although widespread, this practice has well-recognized limitations: it discards the phylogenetic signal contained in segmental …
Linguistic phylogenies are standardly inferred from lexical cognate relationships (e.g., Bouckaert et al. 2012, Chang et al. 2015, Sagart et al. 2019). Despite the prevalence of this practice, it suffers from well-known drawbacks. First, it …