hyperforeign

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Etymology

1933 hyper-foreign, 1983 hyperforeign. From hyper- +‎ foreign. Compare hypercorrect/hypercorrection.

Adjective

hyperforeign (not comparable)

  1. (linguistics) Resulting from the misapplication of foreign reading rules, such as dropping the ‘t’ in claret.
    • 1933, Leonard Bloomfield, Language, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, page 449:
      This relation is further complicated by the literate persons who know something of the foreign pronunciation and orthography. A speaker who knows the spelling jabot and the English form (for French [žabo]), may revise tête-à-tête [ˈtejteˌtejt] (from French [tɛ:t a tɛːt]) to a hyper-foreign ['tejtetej], without the final .
    • 1970, Joshua Blau, On Pseudo-Corrections in Some Semitic Languages, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, p 17:
      Half-literate persons, who try, without proper knowledge, to pronounce a foreign language, are apt to coin hyper-foreign forms, a special kind of hyper-correction.
    • 1973, Milton L. Boyle, Jr, untitled book review in Journal of Biblical Literature, v 92:
      Professor Blau combines his thorough grounding in linguistics with vast knowledge of Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, and related languages to alert scholars to the occurrence of a phenomenon he terms “pseudo-corrections” in Semitic language texts. The term is a general one encompassing largely hyper-corrections which have been studied for some time in the Indo-European languages. Hyper-corrections occur when a speaker, or writer, attempts to correct his own speech by using forms from another speech which he regards as more prestigious, or “higher” than his own. When he uses a “higher” form incorrectly, producing a form that is correct in neither the “higher” nor “lower” speech, the form is called a hyper-correction by linguists.
      Blau indicates that other pseudo-corrections may occur as the result of spelling pronunciations, reversal of sound shifts (regression), and may be found in hyper-foreign form, “inverted calques,” inverse spelling, and “literary pseudo-corrections” which are correct linguistically but incorrect stylistically.
    • 1983, Jens Elmegård Rasmussen, “Two Phonological Issues in Germanic”, in Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, volume 18, Copenhagen, page 203:
      Had the norms of Eng. phonotactics been violated by the stimulus words, there would probably have occurred all sorts of further distortions in the responses, cf. the well-known examples of what an impression of ‘foreignness’ can do on a stage of imperfect learning supplied by the English school tradition of trilled r in French, or the Danish hyperforeign pronunciation of German <z> as a voiced .
    • 2005, Gregory K. Iverson, Joseph C. Salmons, “Filling the Gap: English Tense Vowel Plus Final /š/”, in Journal of English Linguistics, volume 33, number 3, pages 207–21:
      This playfulness and hyperforeign linguistic behavior is notably absent with in English, a sound that is systematically ruled out in initial position. Thus, speakers do not turn a name like Noam into *Ngoam for any playful purpose or to underscore its seeming alien quality.

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