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How to pronounce “hypercorrection”
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- Mastering Skills for Success in Life
So researchers call this the hypercorrection effect.
- Definition summary
- (linguistics) Nonstandard language use that results from the overapplication of a perceived prescriptive rule.
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How to pronounce hypercorrection
Mastering Skills for Success in Life

So researchers call this the hypercorrection effect.
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Meaning
- [Noun]
- (linguistics) Nonstandard language use that results from the overapplication of a perceived prescriptive rule.
- (linguistics) A nonstandard form so used.
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