THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR AN ONTOLINGUISTIC STUDY OF NOMINATIVE UNITS IN UZBEK AND ENGLISH CHILD SPEECH
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5281/Keywords:
ontolinguistics; nomination; child speech; Uzbek language; English language; psycholinguistics; comparative linguistics.Abstract
This thesis lays the theoretical and methodological groundwork for a comparative, ontolinguistic study of nominative units in Uzbek and English child speech. It examines ontolinguistics as a field bridging language and ontology, surveys the psycholinguistic mechanisms underlying early naming — overextension, underextension, and functional, perceptual and associative naming strategies — and traces the developmental stages through which nominative units emerge. Particular attention is paid to typological and socio-cultural differences between Uzbek and English, including kinship terminology and diminutive-affective suffixation. The review identifies a persistent gap: Uzbek child speech has never been studied as an ontolinguistic category or systematically compared with English, a gap the wider dissertation sets out to close through longitudinal, corpus-informed analysis.
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