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Hypercorrection

Overuse of a standard linguistic features in terms of both frequency, i.e. over-passing the speakers of higher social status, and overshooting the target, i.e. extending the use of a form in a linguistic environment where it is not expected to occur, for example, pronouncing ideas as ai'dier, extending pronouncing post-vocalic/r/ in an environment where it's not supposed to occur.

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