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In all dialects morphological word-final clusters
are permitted in nouns when they occur within a morpheme

and as a result of final vowel-dropping.

Wawa.mp apa.sma. ‘You should take the baby, too.'
baby ~—it take

-mpi ‘with, and' (La Paz/Compi)

In this example, wawa.mp is a zero complement, losing its
final vowel.
4-3.33 Stem-final vowel restoration (stress on ante-
penultimate vowel of a verb)
As indicated in 3-3.1, stress in Aymara is non-
phonemic, always occurring on the penultimate vowel.
Vowel length after a penultimate stressed vowel, or
loss of a final vowel, may make the stress appear to
fall on the last vowel of a word. Restoration of a final
vowel /a/ to an inflected verb after stress placement
may make the stress appear to fall on the antepenultimate
vowel. This effect has so far been heard only in La Paz
and Sitajara on verbs inflected with suffixes ending in
nasals. These suffixes are the 2>3 Imperative =m,
3+2 Simple -,.tam, and 4+3 Simple - tan. The stress
pattern occurs most often on 2+3 Imperative, rarely on
the others. In La Paz the pattern occurs most frequently
in radio advertisements and announcements but has also

been heard in sermons (see 9-3 for examples).