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  <Title>A New Algorithm for the Alignment of Phonetic Sequences</Title>
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6 Future Directions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The goal of my current research is to combine the new alignment algorithm with a cognate identification procedure, The alignment of cognates is possi- null ble only after the pairs of words that are suspected of being cognate have been identified. Identification of cognates is, however, an even more difficult task than the alignment itself. Moreover, it is hardly feasible without some kind of pre-alignment between candidate lexemes. A high alignment score of two words should indicate whether they are related. An integrated cognate identification algorithm would take as input unordered wordlists from two or more related languages, and produce a list of aligned cognate pairs as output. Such an algorithm would be a step towards developing a fully automated language reconstruction system.</Paragraph>
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