...In linguistics, hypercorrection is defined as usage of pronunciation or linguistic rule that many informed users of a language consider incorrect, but that the speaker or writer uses through misunderstanding of prescriptive rules, often combined with a desire to seem formal or educated. Read full entry
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- 1.Hypercorrection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- In linguistics, hypercorrection is defined as usage of pronunciation or ... Linguistic hypercorrection occurs when a real or imagined grammatical or ...
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- 2.hypercorrection: Definition from Answers.com
- hypercorrection n. A construction or pronunciation produced by mistaken analogy with standard usage out of a desire to be correct, as in the
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If you are going to a University, use their electronic databases to search journal articles. If you don't know how to do this, ask a librarian, it's really easy. Also you could look up pronunciation and phonetics for some books and look in the table of contents. |
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