Kari Suomi | |
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Nationality | Finnish |
Alma mater | University of Turku |
Known for | English, Swedish and Finnish phonology |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Phonetics |
Institutions | University 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]