Kari Suomi

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]

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)

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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