Stress shifting suffixes

[David Sanchez]

Most grammars of classical nahuatl accept that stress accent fall on the
penultimate vowel, althought this is not the case in modern dialects.

My questions are:
1)  if locative suffix -co shifts stress one syllabe like in:

te:'ocal- > teocal + co > teo'calco

the form tepe:c (< tepe:- + co) form ancient: *te'pe:co is pronounced
"'tepe:c" or "te'pec:(o) > "te'pe:c".

2) can reasonabily reconstructed the accent pattern of classical nahuatl,
that is, is believable that stress fall always in penultimate syllabe?

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