hypocorrect

comparative more hypocorrect · superlative most hypocorrect

1. grammarNot completely correct; nonstandard.

   They produce hypocorrect forms in an effort to speak nonstandard black English.

   1988, Linguistic Society of America, Meeting Handbook, page 5

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   Despite being second dialect learners, hypocorrect speakers are reinforcing linguistic divergence.

   1999, John Baugh, Out of the Mouths of Slaves, →ISBN

   This example also shows the combination of a hypocorrect construction with a “high” stylistic figure, that is, paronomasia (or figura etymologica—mafʿūl muțlaq).

   2013, Jonathan Owens, The Oxford Handbook of Arabic Linguistics, →ISBN, page 180

present singular third person hypocorrects · participle present hypocorrecting · participle past hypocorrected · past hypocorrected

1. To undercorrect.

   The surgeon can hypocorrect on the operating table, knowing that in the postoperative period an additional correction will result because of:...

   1989, Yves-Gerard Illouz, Yves T. De Villers, Emma Dankoski, Body sculpturing by lipoplasty, →ISBN, page 417

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   Dillard (1977) and Baugh (19S7; 1992) have also shown that upper-middle class African American college students hypocorrect in their use of AAE phonology and grammar.

   1997, Working Papers in Linguistics - Volume 4, page 337

   Similarly, the change bh>mh can be seen as a form of assimilation where listeners hypocorrect and misassign the nasality from a nasal segment to the labial fricative segment.

   2003, Ériu: Founded as the Journal of the School of Irish Learning Devoted to Irish Philology and Literature, page 128