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Janda, Richard D.; Auger, Julie – Language and Communication, 1992
The overall role played by hypercorrection in the literature on language change, language variation, and second language acquisition is reviewed. The paper argues that hypercorrection is not a completely unified phenomenon, citing an empirical study showing that quantitative methods applied to qualitative hypercorrection necessarily involve…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), French, Language Patterns, Language Research