Revisiting the history of Tuscan consonants: the type stùpito ‘stupid’ (< stupĭdu(m))
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[1] University of Oxford
University of Oxford
Oxford District, Reino Unido
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- Localización: Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, ISSN-e 1865-9063, ISSN 0049-8661, Vol. 133, Nº 2, 2017, págs. 549-584
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
This article fills a gap in the existing descriptions of Italo-Romance diachronic phonology. It does so by offering a geographical and historical account of the emergence of voiceless stops replacing etymological voiced stops in the final syllable of proparoxytones, as in the widespread Tuscan variant stùpito ‘stupid’. Within a broadly-defined Labovian framework, this development is discussed according to two main options: as due to finely-conditioned articulatory processes, typical of the initial stages of regular sound change, or as a case of lexically sporadic, substitutive change. The second option is tentatively favoured, also on the basis of the possible links to another change – the much debated, irregular voicing of intervocalic /p/, /t/ and /k/.
