Kari Suomi

Kari Suomi
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.

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

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.

Works

Academic theses

• 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

• 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. 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

• 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.