Fred Göran Karlsson (born February 17, 1946, in Turku) is a professor emeritus of general linguistics at the University of Helsinki.
Education and background
Karlsson's father Göran Karlsson was a prominent linguist and worked as a professor of Finnish Language and Literature at Åbo Akademi.
Fred Karlsson studied Finnish language at Åbo Akademi and phonetics at the University of Turku, and graduated in 1969. In 1972 he graduated in linguistics at the University of Chicago.
Karlsson earned his Ph.D. in phonetics at the University of Turku in 1974.