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A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE AND LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF UZBEK AND ENGLISH TONGUE TWISTERS
10.00.06-Comparative Literature, Constrative Linguistics and Translation Studies in Fergana State University English Language Teacher, Registon Private School f.f.f.d (PhD) Head of the Department of Practical English Cou
10.00.06-Comparative Literature, Constrative Linguistics and Translation Studies in Fergana State University English Language Teacher, Registon Private School f.f.f.d (PhD) Head of the Department of Practical English Courses Fergana State University
Tongue twisters show an only genre of oral folklore that combines linguistic complexity with educational and entertainment functions. They are designed to make speakers feel challenge through the repetition of same sounds, words, and syntactic patterns, thereby increasing pronunciation ability, articulation, and fluency in speaking. Despite their significance in language development and speech training, comparative studies examining the syntactic and linguistic characteristics of tongue twisters through various languages remain limited. This article researches the syntactic structures and linguistic features of Uzbek and English tongue twisters from a comparative approach. This study explores phonetic, morphological, lexical, and syntactic aspects of selected tongue twisters and identifies similarities and differences due to the typological nature of the two languages. The findings show that while both languages employ sound repetition and structural parallelism to create pronunciation difficulties, Uzbek tongue twisters exhibit greater morphological complexity due to their agglutinative nature, whereas English tongue twisters rely more heavily on phonetic patterns and fixed word orders. The research contributes to comparative linguistics, folklore studies, and language teaching methodology by highlighting the pedagogical value of tongue twisters in pronunciation training and communicative competence development.