Analisi dei processi di retroflessione delle liquide in area romanza, con dati sperimentali dal còrso e dal siciliano

[First part of the summary]: In this dissertation, I analyze the process of retroflexion which affect the liquid consonants in the Romance area. I consider both a diachronic/typological and an acoustic-phonetic point of view. The topic of consonant retroflexion has been widely investigated by Romance dialectologists as well as historical linguists, and by experimental phoneticians, but the convergence of the two sub-disciplines has been so far episodic. This dissertation aims at filling this gap, by exploiting the main resources of experimental phonetics with purposes of diachronic reconstruction.