179

Jani.w at.t.ti [atti]. ‘I can't.' (Salinas)
ati.fia ‘to be able’
=ta, 173 Simple tense
-ti negative final suffix

4-3.22.22 Reduction of stop-fricative clusters to
aspirated stops (Neutralization)

When morphophonemic vowel-dropping results in a
/kj/, /kx/, or /qx/ cluster, the result is indistinguish-
able phonetically from /k"/ or /q"/. /kx/ tends to
assimilate to /q"/, the postvelar fricative exerting
regressive influence on the point of articulation of the
stop.
4-3.22.23 Frication of velar stop before consonant

/k/ --> /j/ / _[+cons]

By this rule the velar stop /k/ changes to the
homorganic velar fricative /j/. The rule occurs only in
Salinas and Huancané.

In Salinas the rule applies to two suffixes con-
taining /k/ after morphophonemic vowel dropping has
created a cluster of /k/ plus another consonant (not
another /k/). The suffixes are -ka- verbal derivational
incompletive and -raki nonfinal independent. The only

consonants that have occurred after /k/ in examples noted