Raymond Herbert Stetson

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Raymond Herbert Stetson (died 4 December 1950) was an American speech scientist at Oberlin College. In 1928 he published an influential book called Motor Phonetics: A Study of Speech Movements in Action. He is the one who developed the chest pulses theory in the study of English syllables; the number of syllables is determined in the number of chest pulses. [1] He graduated from Harvard University and Oberlin College.[2]

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  1. ^ http://www.oberlin.edu/archive/holdings/finding/RG30/SG13/biography.html
  2. ^ "Course Catalog". 1918.
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