David Odden
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David A. Odden is professor of Linguistics at Ohio State University.
His contributions to linguistics have been in the area of phonology and language description, most notably African tone and the description of Bantu languages. In addition, his work on the obligatory contour principle (OCP) has been instrumental to an understanding of that phenomenon. He is currently editor of Studies in African Linguistics.
[edit] Selected works
- 2005. Introducing Phonology. Cambridge University Press.
- 1996. The Phonology and Morphology of Kimaatuumbi. Oxford University Press.
- 1995. Tone: African Languages. In J. Goldsmith (ed.) The handbook of phonological theory.
- 1991. Vowel geometry. In Phonology 8.261-89.
- 1988. Anti antigemination and the OCP. In Linguistic Inquiry 19.451-75.
- 1986. On the role of the obligatory contour principle in phonological theory. In Language 62.353-83.
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