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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 12:33PM

Hypercorrection

Overgeneralizations of a language rule or phenomenon, where unattested pronunciations result, e.g., L2 speakers of Spanish incorrectly palatalizing the [n] in “habnero” as [nj], where no tilda is present on the “n” in the native Spanish. (sociolinguistics)

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