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. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-12-21. Retrieved 2015-09-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ "Course Catalog". 1918.