David Arnold Odden (/ˈoʊdən/; born 1954)[1] is professor emeritus of Linguistics at the 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.
Odden was also the Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Durham in 2003 and Fulbright Professor at the University of Tromsø, Norway from 1999 to 2000.
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