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Kari Suomi

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Kari Suomi
Born (1948-03-29) 29 March 1948 (age 78)
Turku
Alma materUniversity of Turku
Known forEnglish, Swedish and Finnish phonology
Scientific career
FieldsPhonetics
InstitutionsUniversity of Oulu
Thesis Voicing in English and Finnish Stops: A Typological Comparison with an Interlanguage Study of the Two Languages in Contact  (1980)

Kari Juhani Suomi (born 29 March 1948 in Turku) is a Finnish linguist who was an assistant professor from 1985 to 2012 in the Department of Phonetics at the University of Oulu.[1] He has researched English, Swedish and Finnish phonology.[2][3][4]

His textbook Introduction to Speech Acoustics has been used for university teaching in Finnish phonetics, speech therapy and vocology since 1990.[5]

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.[6][7]

Works

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Academic theses

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

International publications

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Papers from Finnish phoneticians

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  • Suomi, Kari, ed. (1977). Papers from the 7th meeting of Finnish phoneticians Fonetiikan päivät. University of Turku. OCLC 248529475.
  • Suomi, Kari, ed. (1991). Papers from the 16th meeting of Finnish phoneticians. University of Oulu. ISBN 978-951-42-3138-4. OCLC 52598659.
  • Seppänen, Tapio; Suomi, Kari; Toivanen, Juhani, eds. (2004). The Phonetics Symposium 2004. University of Oulu. ISBN 978-951-42-7681-1. OCLC 076861730.

Textbooks

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References

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  1. Laaksamo, Merja; Pyykkö, Raija, eds. (2024). Suomen professorit 1640–2024. Helsinki: Professoriliitto. p. 884. ISBN 978-952-99281-5-6.
  2. "researchgate: Publications I". Retrieved August 16, 2019.
  3. "skmiod: Publications II". Archived from the original on March 20, 2017. Retrieved August 16, 2019.
  4. "WorldCat: Publications III". Retrieved August 16, 2019.
  5. "Introduction to Speech Acoustics". Retrieved August 16, 2019.
  6. "Introduction to phonetics and Finnish sound theory". Retrieved August 16, 2019.
  7. "Finnish sound structure" (PDF). Retrieved August 16, 2019.