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Kari Suomi
NationalityFinnish
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 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

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Academic theses

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  • 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

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Papers from Finnish phoneticians

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Textbooks

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References

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  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.