GENDER IN CHILDREN'S SPEECH: RUSSIAN-UZBEK COMPARISONS

The article presents a comparative analysis of gender features in children's speech based on the Russian and Uzbek languages. The study examines differences in the acquisition of grammatical categories, lexico-semantic preferences of boys and girls, as well as the influence of cultural factors on the formation of gender-marked expressions in speech ontogenesis. The empirical basis of the research includes data from spontaneous speech of preschool children, parental diaries from ontolinguistic research archives, as well as materials from literary and folklore texts. The analysis shows that, along with universal tendencies (earlier acquisition of morphology by girls, predominance of the "referential style" in boys), significant culture-specific differences are observed: in the Uzbek language, gender differentiation of speech is reinforced by morphological means of expressing respect and the system of address, whereas in Russian, gender differences manifest primarily at the level of grammatical gender and syntactic constructions.