Is there such a phenomenon as "undercorrection/hypocorrection?

[Wilson Gray]

Yes, they both were. It was the "Judge Joe Brown" show, which is a
clone of "Judge Judy," if you're not familiar with it. Anyway, Judge
Joe has absolutely no sympathy for the common street thug and has
made that very clear. My impression was that the speaker, a common
street thug, suddenly became aware of the difference between his
low-class BE and the judge's middle-class BE. And, knowing that Judge
Joe Brown is not the kind of brother that you can conversate with, he
decided that it would behoove him to talk as "proper" as he could.
But you really have to have had practice in order to switch to
another dialect in mid-utterance, unless you're doing it all the
time. I think our guy meant to shift "aks" to "ast" or even "asted,"
but it was already too late and he wound up "down-shifting," so to
speak, from the "proper" "whose" to "who" by accident.

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>Were both the interviewer and the guest black?  Might this have been
>accommodation to an "in-group" interlocutor?
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>At 04:14 PM 3/16/2005, you wrote:
>  >Spoken by a black TV-show guest:
>  >
>  >He aks me _whose, uh, who_ car was this.
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>  >-Wilson