summary anglicization names hi posted query ago non english names get anglicized got response quite interesting though anecdotal responders noted research cited sociolinguistics speech technology still think would interesting topic work case including responses got thanks apologies typographical irregularities best larry rosenwald wellesley college 1 margaret luebs maluebs umich edu saw message linguist list wanted share story probably scholarly enough summary though last name german spelled luebs people always assume pronounced lubes pretty close expected german pronunciation though may greatgrandparents said see instead irritatingly enough say lebbs story told may partly apocryphal grandfather first 12 siblings make farm parents settled 1880 arrived university nebraska 1910 went professor german department asked american pronunciation name till family pronounced old way spoke german home lived among lots germans professor reason said lebbs got stuck years later another brother made university went different professor german department asked question answer got leebs descendants pronounce name cousins seem used common sense pronounce lubes however old letter germany addressed greatgrandfather refers h libs misspelling perhaps inspired actual pronunciation original pronunciation may closer leebs still nt explain lebbs oh well know nt asked phonetic factors even normal sociolinguistic ones rather dreaded influence university professors 2 lexo lsi sel sony com lex olorenshaw hi anglicization topic interests speech technology point view example ways anticipate anglicized pronunciation names order produce better synthesized speech automatically recognize speech better research done area text speech synthesizers nt looked much couple references name pronunciation web site might serve starting point http www bellcore com orator oref html since wondering also quick search name pronunciation linguistics abstract online currently free trial basis came following items title variant graphemephoneme correspondences unfamiliar polysyllabic words author robert l trammell journal language speech vol 33 4 1990 293323 subdiscipline phonology abstract ten college students ten phds read aloud 30 unfamiliar english words two five syllables length greek latin germanic origin average number different subject pronunciations per word five range one ten response compared rulepredicted dictionaryprescribed frequent pronunciation word subjects agreed dictionary latter rules however rules predicted half prescribed pronunciations better average number individual subject responses agreeing dictionary frequent response word demonstrated considerably agreement dictionary rules average number responses subjects individually etymological source test words effect phds group significantly better students measures differences small view previous research frequent vowel laxing open third fourth syllables end unexpected several models reading examined light results title novel word pronunciation crosslanguage study author k p h sullivan r damper journal speech communication vol 13 3 4 1993 441452 subdiscipline computational linguistics abstract case novel word absent textto speech system pronouncing dictionary traditional systems invoke contextdependent letterto phoneme rules produce pronunciation proposal psychological literature however human readers pronounce novel words using explicit rules analogy letterto phoneme patterns words already know paper synthesisby analogy system presented accordingly also model novelword pronunciation humans employs analogy orthographic phonological domains applied pronunciation novel words british received pronunciation english german implementing system certain detailed questions confronted analogy theory present inadequately developed answer thus major part work concerns impact implementational choices performance defined ability system produce pronunciations line given humans size content lexical database analogy system must based also considered better performing implementations produced useful results british english german however best results two languages obtained rather different implementations authors abstract authors 3