Revisiting the history of Tuscan consonants: the type stùpito ‘stupid’ (< stupĭdu(m))

Abstract

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