Education
He received his Doctor of Philosophy from Stockholm University in 1992 and is professor at the Department of Scandinavian languages there.
(This book presents a comprehensive, contrastive account o...)
This book presents a comprehensive, contrastive account of the phonological structures and characteristics of Swedish. After an introduction on the history of the language and its relation to other Scandinavian languages, the book is divided into parts dealing with segmental phonology, lower prosodic phonology, stress and tone, morphology-phonology interactions, higher prosodic phonology, and intonation. The book concludes with concise accounts of regional variations in accent and the influence of phonology on poetry and orthography. Tomas Riad's approach is data-oriented and, insofar as possible, theory-neutral. As well as making an important contribution to its subject, his book provides new insights into the nature of phonological change and the relation between morphology, phonology, and phonetics.
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He received his Doctor of Philosophy from Stockholm University in 1992 and is professor at the Department of Scandinavian languages there.
Riad is also a violinist, trained at the Royal College of Music in London and has worked as a full-time musician.
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Swedish Academy]
He was elected a member of the Swedish Academy on 29 September 2011 (taking his seat on 20 December).