Kari Suomi
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]
Works
[edit]Academic theses
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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.
Textbooks
[edit]- Suomi, Kari (1988). Johdatusta fonologiaan. (Introduction to phonology), University of Oulu, Finland. ISBN 978-951-42-2557-4. OCLC 046136269.
- Suomi, Kari (1990). Johdatusta puheen akustiikkaan. (Introduction to Speech Acoustics), University of Oulu, Finland. ISBN 951-42-2922-3.
- Suomi, Kari (1996). Fonologian perusteita. (Fundamentals of phonology), University of Oulu, Finland. 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, Finland. 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, Finland. ISBN 978-951-42-8984-2.
References
[edit]- ^ "researchgate: Publications I". Retrieved August 16, 2019.
- ^ "skmiod: Publications II". Retrieved August 16, 2019.
- ^ "WorldCat: Publications III". Retrieved August 16, 2019.
- ^ "Introduction to Speech Acoustics". Retrieved August 16, 2019.
- ^ "Introduction to phonetics and Finnish sound theory". Retrieved August 16, 2019.
- ^ "Finnish sound structure" (PDF). Retrieved August 16, 2019.
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