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certain conditions; geminate consonant reduction; neutrali-
zation of stop-fricative clusters and aspirated stops;

syntactical word-final vowel devoicing and deletion.

4-4.22 Dialect-specific rules

4-4.22.1 Obligatory rules

Obligatory dialect-specific rules are voicing of
prevocalic stops after homorganic nasals and the palatal
lateral within a morpheme, Salinas; frication of velar
stop before consonant in certain morphemes, Salinas;
‘reduction of clusters of alveolar fricative plus velar
fricative, Salinas; affricate reduction to /s/ after /x/,
Jopoqueri; loss of morphological word-final vowel on
verb subjects in certain environments in certain dialects;
avoidance of morphological word-final consonant clusters

on nouns with personal possessive suffixes, Morocomarca.
4-4.22.2 Optional rules

Optional dialect-specific rules are preposition
(or recovery) of initial /ji/ or /si/ on sa.fia before
Simple tense inflection, La Paz, Juli, Huancané, Socca;
reduction of /q'/ to ['], Salinas, Calacala, and Moroco-
marca; palatalized velar allophone of /fi/, Morocomarca;
voicing of stop after homorganic nasal and before vowel,
Calacala, Corque, Huancané, Sitajara; voicing and frica-

tion of prevocalic /p/ in -pa 3p suffix, Calacala;