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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"hypercorrection"”.
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The Perception and Production of Portuguese Mid-Vowels by Native Speakers of American English
… than did the beginners. This was due to a hypercorrection phenomenon in the advanced learners. The advanced learners, once they learned that open vowels exist in Portuguese, seemed to produce them sporadically in their speech. They tended to open many vowels that should have been closed. …
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Japanese students' Romaji strategy when reading words in english as a new language
… without depending on Romaji strategy and without hypercorrection. They respond this way, not because they have learned the rules exclusively but because they are aware of the rules through their many years of exposure to English. These results suggest that Japanese students need to learn English …
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Sounding sacred: The adoption of biblical archaisms in the Book of Mormon and other 19th century texts
… has) or extending them to unexpected contexts (hypercorrections such as –th with plural subjects or ye in object positions).</p> <p>Archaic features are characteristic of the translated texts, which make the most consistent and standard use of archaisms. They are not characteristic of 19th …
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Huffing and puffing about /f/-ing everything: language ideologies and phonological borrowing in South Korea
"Scholars have noted that English usage in Korean society is laden with indexical value. On the one hand English is linked with modernity (Lee 2005), chicness (Park H.J. 2004), and global cosmopolitanism (Park J.K. 2009). On the other hand, for a long time it has also been linked with negative …