| 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. [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]