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Notes

Tan optional rule is one whose constraints are
not yet fully understood. Many are probably stylistically
conditioned.

2The geminate vowel cluster /aa/ resulting from
loss of /j/ reduces to /a/; see 4-3.22.12.

3The final vowel of jich"a drops by a vowel
sequence avoidance rule; see 4-3.22.13.

“The first vowel of mama drops by the three-vowel
rule; see 4-3.22.16.

This example shows that initial consonant clusters
are permitted in La Paz/Compi dialect in nouns. They are
usually avoided in verbs; see 4-3.13. Geminate /a/ here
results in /a:/.

6py a regular morphophonemic rule (see 4-3.22.22)
/j/ or /x/ tends to reduce to aspiration following the
homorganic stop. In the nonhomorganic combination /kx/
the velar /k/ tends to assimilate to the following post-
velar /x/, resulting in /q"/.

According to Hardman (personal communication)
voicing and and frication of stops are common in Andean
languages, especially in Quechua. Place names often re-
flect this, e. g. Cochabamba.

Bin the derivations of kawk.i:ri and k"ur.i:ri
the following intervening forms may be postulated since
vowel length verbalization requires a preceding vowel
while -iri requires a preceding consonant or, as in these
cases, reduces a preceding long vowel to one vowel.

 

With morpheme divisions:
*kawkiiiri > (Ckawkiiri] /kawki:ri/  kawk.i:ri

*k"uriiiri > (Ck"uriiri] /k"uri:ri/ 9 k"ur.i:ri