hypocorrect meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

hypocorrect

adj

Etymology From hypo- + correct.

Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Not completely correct; nonstandard.

They produce hypocorrect forms in an effort to speak nonstandard black English.1988, Linguistic Society of America, Meeting Handbook, page 5:
Despite being second dialect learners, hypocorrect speakers are reinforcing linguistic divergence.1999, John Baugh, Out of the Mouths of Slaves, →ISBN:

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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:

verb

Etymology From hypo- + correct.

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:
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:

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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: