PHONETIC ADAPTATION AND PRONUNCIATION FEATURES OF ENGLISH BARBARISMS IN THE SPEECH OF UZBEK YOUTH
Keywords:
barbarisms, phonetic adaptation, pronunciation variants, youth speech, English lexical units, anthropocentric linguistics, globalization, Uzbek phonetic system.Abstract
The article, within the framework of modern Uzbek anthropocentric linguistics, examines the phonetic adaptation and pronunciation features of English barbarisms in the speech of Uzbek youth (aged 16–30). It analyzes how English lexical units, widespread among youth due to globalization and the Internet, adapt to the Uzbek phonetic system: vowel and consonant changes, stress shift, and pronunciation variants. The material consists of over 450 audio recordings and social media posts collected from youth in Tashkent, Samarkand, and Ferghana in 2023–2025. Results show that English barbarisms undergo phonetic adaptation in 87% of cases, primarily monophthongization of English diphthongs due to the absence of vowel harmony and substitution of [θ], [ð], [w] with Uzbek equivalents.
