Tomas Riad

Tomas Staffan Riad (born 15 November 1959) is a Swedish linguist, specialised in Swedish phonology and prosody. He received his Ph.D. 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. He was elected a member of the Swedish Academy on 29 September 2011 (taking his seat on 20 December).

As editor

 * Tones and Tunes: Typological Studies in Word and Sentence Prosody (2007)
 * Tones and Tunes: Experimental Studies in Word and Sentence Prosody (2007)
 * Typological Studies in Word and Sentence Prosody (2007)
 * Studier i svensk språkhistoria. 12, Variation och förändring (2014)