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
The University of Oulu ( fi, Oulun yliopisto) is one of the largest universities in Finland, located in the city of Oulu. It was founded on July 8, 1958. The university has around 13,000 students and 2,900 staff. 21 International Master's P ...
. He has researched
English
English usually refers to:
* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ide ...
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Swedish
Swedish or ' may refer to:
Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically:
* Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland
** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...
and
Finnish phonology.
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His textbook ''Introduction to Speech Acoustics'' has been used for university teaching in Finnish phonetics, speech therapy and ]vocology Vocology is the science and practice of vocal habilitation, or vocal training and therapy.Titze IR. (1996). What is vocology? Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology, 21:5-6. Its concerns include the nature of speech and language pathology, the defects of ...
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.][
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Works
Academic theses
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International publications
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Papers from Finnish phoneticians
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Academic staff of the University of Oulu
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Phonologists