How to Pronounce Hebrew Names
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This paper addresses the problem of determining the correct pronunciation of people’s names written in Hebrew, by extracting clues from the way the same name is written in other languages, and by using a database of names whose pronunciation is known to guess the correct pronunciation of a given name. Names differs from other words in a language because they do not follow the language’s fixed set of rules. Names are not necessarily composed of the morphemes of the language and its inflections. Names may have different origins, while some names are legitimate word forms of the language, others originate in different languages. A naive approach to this problem might be
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