Inscriptions and Dravidian sound changes "y" > "c" and "y" >

S. Kalyanaraman kalyan97 at YAHOO.COM
Wed May 27 20:13:28 UTC 1998


---Robert Zydenbos <zydenbos at FLEVOLAND.XS4ALL.NL> wrote:

> It is precisely due to an awareness of what sort of thing is correct
(but not quite understanding why) that hypercorrection can occur at
all. Literacy actually increases this (plain 'literacy' is not the
same as >'learning' and 'understanding').


Is the same term (hypercorrection)used to explain
hyper-sanskritization evident in many Sanskrit lexemes?

Regards,
k.
==
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