hypocorrect

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Not completely correct

   Not completely correct; nonstandard.

   • They produce hypocorrect forms in an effort to speak nonstandard black English.
   • Despite being second dialect learners, hypocorrect speakers are reinforcing linguistic divergence.
   • This example also shows the combination of a hypocorrect construction with a “high” stylistic figure, that is, paronomasia (or figura etymologica—mafʿūl muțlaq).
2. 2

   To undercorrect.

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

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