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noun Linguistics.
1.
the substitution, in an inappropriate context, of a pronunciation, grammatical form, or usage thought by the speaker or writer to be appropriate, resulting usually from overgeneralizing in an effort to replace seemingly incorrect forms with correct ones, as the substitution of between you and I for between you and me, by analogy with you and I as the subject of a sentence.
2.
the form so substituted.
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Hypercorrection
is always a great word to know.
So is distinctive feature. Does it mean:
| the borrowing of linguistic forms by one language or dialect from another when both occupy a single geographical or cultural community |
| a component or phonetic form characterizing a phoneme |
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