Raymond Herbert Stetson

Raymond Herbert Stetson
Born(1872-03-01)March 1, 1872
North Ridgeville, Ohio, US
DiedDecember 4, 1950(1950-12-04) (aged 78)
Oberlin, Ohio, US
Education
OccupationSpeech scientist

Raymond Herbert Stetson (March 1, 1872 – December 4, 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.

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