10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HYPERCORRECT»
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hypercorrect in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
hypercorrect and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Variation in Indigenous Minority Languages
In the rest of this section, I will discuss the proportion of hypercorrect words (
hypercorrect words / total number of Cham words) found in the interviews.
However, since the interviews were relatively short, ranging from a few hundred
to a few ...
James N. Stanford, Dennis Richard Preston, 2009
2
Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure
Most frequent collocations in hypercorrect (object) X and I These two facts are not
particularly meaningful in themselves. It could well have been the case that you
and 1 occurs frequently as a hypercorrection only because it is the favored form ...
Joan L. Bybee, Paul Hopper, 2001
3
Diphthongization of Non-high Vowel Sequences in Latin ...
Hypercorrect forms □ Non-corrected □ Corrected □ Corrected but keeps the
hypercorrect form □ Error Figure 54 Orthographic correction task, hypercorrect
forms, Mexico. The data from Bogota, summarized in Figure 55 displayed a very ...
4
The Social Stratification of English in New York City
shows the same hypercorrect tendency in the reports of its own speech as in
actual usage, stylistic variation, and in the SR and SV tests. The hypercorrect
tendency of the lower middle class seems to be rooted in a profound linguistic
insecurity ...
5
The Representation of Parisian Speech in the Cinema of the 1930s
Variable and hypercorrect liaisons are conditioned by linguistic as well as
sociolinguistic factors such as social class, age, gender or speech style (Lodge et
al. 1997, pp. 97-8). Both 'cuirs' and 'velours' occur in linguistic contexts where the
...
6
Exploring the French Language
hypercorrect. and. variable. INVARIABLE LIAISON Liaison forms of the type:
article + noun beginning with a vowel (e.g. les amis, un an) are made invariably
by all French speakers; any failure to make such a liaison would be a so-called ...
7
Creoles, Contact, and Language Change: Linguistics and ...
4.2.1 Phonology Misspellings and hypercorrect spellings indicate phonetic and
phonological characteristics of the speech of the letter writers. Rhoticity,
consonant cluster reduction, /w/ — /hw/ merger, replacement of the velar nasal /n/
by /n/, ...
Geneviève Escure, Armin Schwegler, 2004
8
Trial Language: Differential Discourse Processing and ...
Another important axis for analysis was hypercorrect style versus formal style,
somewhat more diffuse in description than that of powerful and powerless styles.
O'Barr lists lexical differences as one indicator of these two styles. In his analysis
...
9
Structure and Variation in Language Contact
para Curdoba e Tuledas to Cordoba and Toledo Valadulid en Castillas
Valladolid and Castile [hypercorrect /s/] y en Capalonas, Valencias. . . and in
Capalona, Valencia [hypercorrect /s/] Example (16) shows that number
agreement is present ...
Ana Deumert, Stephanie Durrleman-Tame, 2006
10
Standards and Variation in Urban Speech: Examples from ...
Tom is apparently trying to avoid such stigmatized forms in speaking to a middle-
class woman and ends up with the unfortunate hypercorrect form [laup] instead of
[lup]. The narrator (presumably deliberately) makes clear his own dialect loyalty ...
Ronald K. S. Macaulay, 1997
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HYPERCORRECT»
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hypercorrect is used in the context of the following news items.
Commonly mispronounced words, and why we just can't say them
Mispronunciations tend to occur most frequently when people are speaking unguardedly or sometimes when they are hypercorrect and think ... «Herald Sun, Jun 15»
Joe Blundo: Disputes a hallmark of language
The title of the book is a rebuke to people who “hypercorrect” — introduce grammatical errors by fixing something that's not broken. Between ... «Columbus Dispatch, May 15»
And Our Flag was Still There…
... positive intentions and for inclusive purposes, we find that it's a situation where the hypercorrect approach actually did more harm than good. «The UCSD Guardian Online, Mar 15»
Sasha Kobliha: In art history classes, students find novelty and …
In my studies, I was prompted to reevaluate my cookie-cutter, hypercorrect definition of what art is and explore its personal significance to me. «GW Hatchet, Jan 15»
Feminism In Music: When Song Lyrics Are 'Not Feminist Enough'
Aren't such politically hypercorrect articles bigger danger for the society than a few in joke meant words in a funny song? Anonymous (not ... «Neon Tommy, Sep 14»
Do You Say Amongst Instead of Among? Here's Why.
In 1922, the linguist Otto Jesperson coined the term "hypercorrect," referring to a word or usage "falsely modelled on an apparently analogous ... «Slate Magazine, Oct 13»
Grammar Geekery With Bill Walsh
Too many people hypercorrect such things and would say "I'm one of the people who GETS annoyed." Which would be dead wrong. — Aug 29, 2013 2:00 EDT. «Washington Post, Aug 13»
Why We Insist on Saying “Between You and I”
We had people correcting us all the time, so much, so the theory goes, that we now hypercorrect, using "I" too much, even when it's wrong. «Slate Magazine, Feb 12»
Disinterested
Some people—often children of English teachers or Anglophiles—proudly wear their knowledge on their sleeve, and adopt hypercorrect ... «Slate Magazine, Apr 11»
E-Readers' Collective
But it's hard to imagine the urbane, hypercorrect McEwan signing off on this Hollywood hyperbole, much less selecting that common misuse of ... «New York Times, Oct 10»
