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Peer reviewedDi Paolo, Marianna – Language and Communication, 1992
Acoustic analysis of two vowels thought to be merged in Utah English suggest that there are small but consistent differences between them. A matched guise experiment provides evidence that when the vowels are merged hypercorrection is involved. (33 references) (LB)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Contrastive Linguistics, English, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedJanda, 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
