• In sociolinguistics, hypercorrection is the nonstandard use of language that results from the overapplication of a perceived rule of language-usage prescription...
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  • Hypercorrection is the higher likelihood of correcting a general knowledge error when originally certain that the information they understand is accurate...
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  • mother-in-law. Hypercorrection is defined by Wolfram as "the use of speech form on the basis of false analogy." DeCamp defines hypercorrection in a more precise...
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  • is just between you and I" for "This is just between you and me" (hypercorrection to avoid the correct "you and me" form in the predicate of copulative...
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  • § Brackets and transcription delimiters. A hyperforeignism is a type of hypercorrection where speakers identify an inaccurate pattern in loanwords from a foreign...
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  • One documented linguistic effect of linguistic insecurity is hypercorrection. Hypercorrection is the over-application of a perceived rule of grammar in order...
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  • you and me'], but that did not make it any more correct". The term hypercorrection, in this context, refers to grammatically incorrect usage, and is typically...
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    of French loanwords was a major factor in the shift. Middle-class hypercorrection: Yet others assert that because of the increasing prestige of French...
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    German legions including 'XVIII PR' – surely here the stonecutter's hypercorrection for IIXX PR. Gachard, M. (1862). "II. Analectes historiques, neuvième...
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    sense to mean 'hill'. The Slovene name Videm (with final -m) is a hypercorrection of the local Slovene name Vidan (with final -n), based on settlements...
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    the Latin plural should be curricula vitarum is in fact an incorrect hypercorrection based on superficial knowledge of Latin.) Applicant tracking system...
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  • linguistic choice is apparent in ethnic hypercorrection. Ethnic hypercorrection is a subclass of linguistic hypercorrection, and refers to the over-application...
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    between definite and indefinite variants of the adjective, leading to hypercorrection when speakers try to use Standard Slovene. Slovene, like most other...
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    meaning 'One who rules', or '(Spiritual) Master' got changed through hypercorrection and folk etymology to Āḻvār (ஆழ்வார்) meaning 'One who is immersed'...
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  • H-adding, is found in certain situations, sometimes as an allophone or hypercorrection by H-dropping speakers, and sometimes as a spelling pronunciation or...
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    example "an H-bomb" or "a H-bomb". The pronunciation /heɪtʃ/ may be a hypercorrection formed by analogy with the names of the other letters of the alphabet...
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    amuse-bouche is not even listed in most dictionaries, being a euphemistic hypercorrection that appeared in the 1980s on restaurant menus and used almost only...
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  • from OE hūs-wīf 'house-wife' > hussif (> 'hussy') > LME house-wife. Hypercorrections may also become established in a language, leading to a further kind...
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    pronunciation, making the use of /ʒ/ an instance of hyperforeignism, a type of hypercorrection. Occasionally, ⟨j⟩ represents its original /j/ sound, as in Hallelujah...
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    instead of "He gave the ball to Bob and me". This is often called a hypercorrection, since it is perceived as related to avoidance of the stigmatized incorrect...
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    in the north (navegado; lit. "sailor"; "navigated" is considered a hypercorrection). Navega'o is a hot drink made from red wine, orange peels, cinnamon...
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  • the store.) This is corrected so often that it has led to cases of hypercorrection, where the subject pronoun is used even in object position under coordination...
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    post-creole speech continuum characterized by large-scale variation and hypercorrection in the language. It is generally acknowledged that creoles have a simpler...
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    sometimes using a leading apostrophe ('til); this should be considered a hypercorrection as till predates the use of until); and others where the connection...
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  • source?] The apparent change from sitty- to sylla- is explained as a hypercorrection by analogy to συλλαμβάνω (syllambano 'bring together, gather'). Chambers...
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  • Sociolinguistic Situation of Trinidad and Tobago. 1997. Phonological Hypercorrection in the Process of Decreolization--the Case of Trinidadian English....
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    tanwīn sign on the final r, but actually pronouncing it would be a hypercorrection. Also, it is never correct to write a sukūn on that r, even though...
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  • redirect targets Generalization error – Measure of algorithm accuracy Hypercorrection – Non-standard language usage from the overapplication of a perceived...
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  • Expressive loan False etymology False friend Folk linguistics Hobson-Jobson Hypercorrection Hyperforeignism Johannes Goropius Becanus Nirukta Okay Phono-semantic...
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    where the standard language has "e" (e.g. vidyal, vidyali). The latter hypercorrection is called свръхякане (svrah-yakane ≈"over-ya-ing"). Shift from /jɛ/...
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