Tomas Riad
List of John Benjamins publications in which Tomas Riad is involved.
Article
1998 The Origin of Scandinavian Tone Accents Diachronica 15:1, pp. 63–98 | Article
SUMMARY 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… read more
