THE INTERACTION BETWEEN STRESS AND MORPHOLOGICAL STRUCTURE IN UZBEK AND ENGLISH: A COMPARATIVE PHONOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
Keywords:
stress, morphological structure, agglutination, derivational affixes, comparative phonology, Uzbek language, English language, prosodic typology.Abstract
This article presents a comparative phonological analysis of the interaction between stress and the morphological structure of the word in Uzbek and English. It demonstrates that in Uzbek, as a representative of the agglutinative type, stress regularly shifts to the final syllable as successive suffixes are appended to the stem, whereas in English, derivational and inflectional affixes condition stress placement within an essentially free-stress system. The analysis brings to light the typological distance between the two languages: in Uzbek, stress operates as an indicator of grammatical structure and morphological completeness, while in English it functions as a means of lexical and grammatical contrast. The findings are of practical relevance for comparative phonology, pronunciation pedagogy and translation theory.
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