Kari Suomi
Finnish linguist
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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]
Born29 March 1948
Turku
AlmamaterUniversity of Turku
KnownforEnglish, Swedish and Finnish phonology
FieldsPhonetics
Kari Suomi | |
|---|---|
| Born | 29 March 1948 Turku |
| 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) |
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
Academic theses
- 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
- Suomi, Kari; Mcqueen, James M.; Cutler, Anne (1997). "Vowel Harmony and Speech Segmentation in Finnish" (PDF). Journal of Memory and Language. 36: 422–444.
- Suomi, Kari; Toivanen, Juhani; Ylitalo, Riikka (2003). "Durational and tonal correlates of accent in Finnish". Journal of Phonetics. 31 (1): 113–138. doi:10.1016/S0095-4470(02)00074-8.
Papers from Finnish phoneticians
- 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
- Suomi, Kari (1988). Johdatusta fonologiaan [Introduction to phonology]. University of Oulu. ISBN 978-951-42-2557-4. OCLC 046136269.
- Suomi, Kari (1990). Johdatusta puheen akustiikkaan [Introduction to Speech Acoustics]. University of Oulu. ISBN 951-42-2922-3.
- Suomi, Kari (1996). Fonologian perusteita [Fundamentals of phonology]. University of Oulu. ISBN 978-951-42-4459-9. OCLC 236010605.
- Suomi, Kari; Toivanen, Juhani; Ylitalo, Riikka (2006). Fonetiikan ja suomen äänneopin perusteet [Fundamentals of phonetics and Finnish sound theory]. Helsinki: Gaudeamus. ISBN 978-952-49-5568-3.
- Suomi, Kari; Toivanen, Juhani; Ylitalo, Riikka (2008). Finnish sound structure: Phonetics, phonology, phonotactics and prosody (PDF). Studia Humaniora Ouluensia 9. Oulu University Press. ISBN 978-951-42-8984-2.