Raymond Herbert Stetson

Raymond Herbert Stetson 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.

Biography

Raymond Herbert Stetson was born in North Ridgeville, Ohio on March 1, 1872. He graduated from Harvard University and Oberlin College.
He died in Oberlin, Ohio on December 4, 1950.