Tomas Riad
Biographic Data
| ID | 827541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tomas Riad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Riad |
| SIGNATURE | RIAD T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3121-9104 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The secret morphology of Tashlhiyt Berber
Two secret languages used in Tashlhiyt Berber are reported in work by Douchaïna (1996, 1998) and Lahrouchi & Ségéral (2009, 2010ab): Tagnawt and Taqjmit. I propose that they should both be analyzed as instances of prosodic morphology, employing the same prosodic morpheme [L.LL.L]. Prosodic morphemes are common in the regular morphology of Tashlhiyt: the prosodic foot [LL] for the imperfective and Tifrdi, the prosodic word [H.H] for Ukris, and [L.…
Northwestern Europe
The Continental Germanic languages fall into a northern group including Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish, and a western group including Dutch, High German, Low German, West Frisian, Afrikaans, and Yiddish. This chapter gives an overview of the lexical tone accent systems that are found in languages of both groups; these appear to be unrelated, in view of the variable conditioning. Central properties of the stress systems are summarized, as are the …
The phonological typology of North Germanic accent
The meter of Tashlhiyt Berber songs
I present an analysis of Tashlhiyt Berber meter, based on the corpus of 'straight' meters collected and analyzed by There are 56 meters (35 independent, 21 dependent), which are systematically related to each other. Based on the many shared properties of all straight meters and their individual inflexibility, I suggest that they all derive from the same general metrical template, much in the same way as proposed by The individual meters are thus …
The prosodic hierarchy of Swedish
We give an overview of the phonological properties and processes that define the categories of the prosodic hierarchy in Swedish: the prosodic word (ω), the prosodic phrase (φ) and the intonation phrase (ι). The separation of two types of tonal prominence, big accents versus small accents (previously called focal and word accent , e.g. Bruce 1977, 2007), is crucial for our analysis. The ω in Swedish needs to be structured on two levels, which we …
Word accent and intonation in Baltic
Culminativity, stress and tone accent in Central Swedish
Typological Studies in Word and Sentence Prosody
Tones and Tunes
Despite the recent advances in the integration of lexical tone and intonation in phonological theory, all too often the study of intonation and the study of lexical tone are viewed as belonging to different research traditions. This collection strengthens the integrated approach by studying tone and intonation within a common framework, and by tracing their interaction in specific prosodic systems. Some papers deal with the structural properties …
The phonology of Greek lyric meter
The meter of Greek lyric poetry shows great variation within and between lines regarding the shape, number and combinations of basic metrical units. We offer a simplifying analysis in terms of markedness, in which meters are defined by distinctive violations of linguistic constraints controlling rhythm, layering, binarity, and alignment. The constraints that are distinctively violated in meter are low ranked in the phonology of Greek
Syllabification and Word Division in Gothic
This article discusses methodological aspects of using Gothic orthography for the purposes of deducing phonological properties of the language. The vowel/glide alternation known as Sievers' law is used as an example. In order for scholars to propose an analysis of this alternation they must form a view of how syllable structure works in Gothic, and in order to do that they must interpret the orthography and determine to what extent it reflects ph…
The Metre of Beowulf
Reviewed by: The metre of Beowulf: A constraint-based approach by Michael Getty Tomas Riad The metre of Beowulf: A constraint-based approach. By Michael Getty. (Topics in English linguistics 36.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2002. Pp. x, 368. ISBN 3110171058. $106 (Hb). Why are we never done with the structural analysis of Beowulf? The short answer is that no one has as yet fully understood the meter of Beowulf, and the reason could be that the met…
The phonology of Classical Greek meter
We propose an analysis of Greek meter based purely on phonology and the idea that well-formedness in meter is largely gradient, rather than absolute. Our analysis is surface-true, constraint-based and nonderivational, in line with proposals like optimality theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993). The discussion centers on two properties of meter, rhythm (dactylic, anapestic, iambic ...) and line length (hexameter, pentameter, tetrameter ...). Unmarked…
Diachronic prosody
The Origin of Scandinavian Tone Accents
This article presents a hypothesis about the origin of tone accent in Swedish and Norwegian. The main idea is that the presence of Proto-Nordic secondary stress and its subsequent reduction is essential to the development of accent 2. Developing an earlier proposal (Riad 1988), it is argued that stress clash is critical in the phonologization of tonal information. Support for the major claims is provided by the correlation of Proto-Nordic seconda…
The phonology of classical Arabic meter
From Linguistics, Vol. 35(1), pp. 111-132, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ling.1997.35.1.111. Copyright ?? 1997 by De Gruyter
The prosodic hierarchy of Swedish
We give an overview of the phonological properties and processes that define the categories of the prosodic hierarchy in Swedish: the prosodic word (ω), the prosodic phrase (φ) and the intonation phrase (ι). The separation of two types of tonal prominence, big accents versus small accents (previously called focal and word accent , e.g. Bruce 1977, 2007), is crucial for our analysis. The ω in Swedish needs to be structured on two levels, which we …
Culminativity, stress and tone accent in Central Swedish
The phonology of Classical Greek meter
We propose an analysis of Greek meter based purely on phonology and the idea that well-formedness in meter is largely gradient, rather than absolute. Our analysis is surface-true, constraint-based and nonderivational, in line with proposals like optimality theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993). The discussion centers on two properties of meter, rhythm (dactylic, anapestic, iambic ...) and line length (hexameter, pentameter, tetrameter ...). Unmarked…
The phonology of Greek lyric meter
The meter of Greek lyric poetry shows great variation within and between lines regarding the shape, number and combinations of basic metrical units. We offer a simplifying analysis in terms of markedness, in which meters are defined by distinctive violations of linguistic constraints controlling rhythm, layering, binarity, and alignment. The constraints that are distinctively violated in meter are low ranked in the phonology of Greek
The phonology of classical Arabic meter
From Linguistics, Vol. 35(1), pp. 111-132, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ling.1997.35.1.111. Copyright ?? 1997 by De Gruyter
The phonology of classical Arabic meter
From Linguistics, Vol. 35(1), pp. 111-132, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ling.1997.35.1.111. Copyright ?? 1997 by De Gruyter
The Origin of Scandinavian Tone Accents
This article presents a hypothesis about the origin of tone accent in Swedish and Norwegian. The main idea is that the presence of Proto-Nordic secondary stress and its subsequent reduction is essential to the development of accent 2. Developing an earlier proposal (Riad 1988), it is argued that stress clash is critical in the phonologization of tonal information. Support for the major claims is provided by the correlation of Proto-Nordic seconda…
Diachronic prosody
The phonology of Classical Greek meter
We propose an analysis of Greek meter based purely on phonology and the idea that well-formedness in meter is largely gradient, rather than absolute. Our analysis is surface-true, constraint-based and nonderivational, in line with proposals like optimality theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993). The discussion centers on two properties of meter, rhythm (dactylic, anapestic, iambic ...) and line length (hexameter, pentameter, tetrameter ...). Unmarked…
Syllabification and Word Division in Gothic
This article discusses methodological aspects of using Gothic orthography for the purposes of deducing phonological properties of the language. The vowel/glide alternation known as Sievers' law is used as an example. In order for scholars to propose an analysis of this alternation they must form a view of how syllable structure works in Gothic, and in order to do that they must interpret the orthography and determine to what extent it reflects ph…
The Metre of Beowulf
Reviewed by: The metre of Beowulf: A constraint-based approach by Michael Getty Tomas Riad The metre of Beowulf: A constraint-based approach. By Michael Getty. (Topics in English linguistics 36.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2002. Pp. x, 368. ISBN 3110171058. $106 (Hb). Why are we never done with the structural analysis of Beowulf? The short answer is that no one has as yet fully understood the meter of Beowulf, and the reason could be that the met…
The phonology of Greek lyric meter
The meter of Greek lyric poetry shows great variation within and between lines regarding the shape, number and combinations of basic metrical units. We offer a simplifying analysis in terms of markedness, in which meters are defined by distinctive violations of linguistic constraints controlling rhythm, layering, binarity, and alignment. The constraints that are distinctively violated in meter are low ranked in the phonology of Greek
Tones and Tunes
Despite the recent advances in the integration of lexical tone and intonation in phonological theory, all too often the study of intonation and the study of lexical tone are viewed as belonging to different research traditions. This collection strengthens the integrated approach by studying tone and intonation within a common framework, and by tracing their interaction in specific prosodic systems. Some papers deal with the structural properties …
Typological Studies in Word and Sentence Prosody
Culminativity, stress and tone accent in Central Swedish
Word accent and intonation in Baltic
The prosodic hierarchy of Swedish
We give an overview of the phonological properties and processes that define the categories of the prosodic hierarchy in Swedish: the prosodic word (ω), the prosodic phrase (φ) and the intonation phrase (ι). The separation of two types of tonal prominence, big accents versus small accents (previously called focal and word accent , e.g. Bruce 1977, 2007), is crucial for our analysis. The ω in Swedish needs to be structured on two levels, which we …
The meter of Tashlhiyt Berber songs
I present an analysis of Tashlhiyt Berber meter, based on the corpus of 'straight' meters collected and analyzed by There are 56 meters (35 independent, 21 dependent), which are systematically related to each other. Based on the many shared properties of all straight meters and their individual inflexibility, I suggest that they all derive from the same general metrical template, much in the same way as proposed by The individual meters are thus …
The phonological typology of North Germanic accent
Northwestern Europe
The Continental Germanic languages fall into a northern group including Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish, and a western group including Dutch, High German, Low German, West Frisian, Afrikaans, and Yiddish. This chapter gives an overview of the lexical tone accent systems that are found in languages of both groups; these appear to be unrelated, in view of the variable conditioning. Central properties of the stress systems are summarized, as are the …
The secret morphology of Tashlhiyt Berber
Two secret languages used in Tashlhiyt Berber are reported in work by Douchaïna (1996, 1998) and Lahrouchi & Ségéral (2009, 2010ab): Tagnawt and Taqjmit. I propose that they should both be analyzed as instances of prosodic morphology, employing the same prosodic morpheme [L.LL.L]. Prosodic morphemes are common in the regular morphology of Tashlhiyt: the prosodic foot [LL] for the imperfective and Tifrdi, the prosodic word [H.H] for Ukris, and [L.…
Linguistics (14 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (11 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (8 works) · Phonology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Prosody (6 works) · History (5 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (5 works) · Mathematics (4 works)