Kari Suomi
NationalityFinnish
Alma materUniversity of Turku
Known forEnglish, Swedish and Finnish phonology
Scientific career
FieldsPhonetics
InstitutionsUniversity of Oulu
ThesisVoicing in English and Finnish Stops: A Typological Comparison with an Interlanguage Study of the Two Languages in Contact (1980)

Kari Suomi was a Finnish linguist who was an assistant professor from 1985 to 2012 in the Department of Phonetics at the University of Oulu. He has researched English, Swedish and Finnish phonology.[1][2][3]

His textbook Introduction to Speech Acoustics has been used for university teaching in Finnish phonetics, speech therapy and vocology since 1990.[4]

His other two textbooks with Toivanen and Ylitalo are Fundamentals of Phonetics and Finnish Sound Theory, 2006, and Finnish Sound Structure – Phonetics, phonology, phonotactics and prosody, 2008.[5][6]

Works

Academic theses

  • Suomi, Kari (1973). Tutkimus liittymän (Anschluss) havaitsemiseen vaikuttavista akustisista parametreistä. (A study of the acoustic parameters affecting the interface (Anschluss) detection), University of Turku, Finland. (Master's Thesis)
  • Suomi, Kari (1980). Voicing in English and Finnish Stops: A Typological Comparison with an Interlanguage Study of the Two Languages in Contact. University of Turku, Finland. ISBN 951-641-798-1. (Doctoral Thesis)

International publications

Papers from Finnish phoneticians

  • Suomi, Kari, ed. (1977). Papers from the 7th meeting of Finnish phoneticians Fonetiikan päivät. 90 pages, University of Turku, Finland. OCLC 248529475.
  • Suomi, Kari, ed. (1991). Papers from the 16th meeting of Finnish phoneticians. 187 pages, University of Oulu, Finland. ISBN 978-951-42-3138-4. OCLC 52598659.
  • Seppänen, Tapio & Suomi, Kari & Toivanen, Juhani (eds.) (2004). The Phonetics Symposium 2004. 99 pages, University of Oulu, Finland. ISBN 978-951-42-7681-1. OCLC 076861730. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Textbooks

References

  1. ↑ "researchgate: Publications I". Retrieved August 16, 2019.
  2. ↑ "skmiod: Publications II". Retrieved August 16, 2019.
  3. ↑ "WorldCat: Publications III". Retrieved August 16, 2019.
  4. ↑ "Introduction to Speech Acoustics". Retrieved August 16, 2019.
  5. ↑ "Introduction to phonetics and Finnish sound theory". Retrieved August 16, 2019.
  6. ↑ "Finnish sound structure" (PDF). Retrieved August 16, 2019.
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