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ISSN  1684-792X

Issue 75

LINGUISTICS

UDK: 81-2

CHILDREN'S LEXICON (BABY TALK) IN THE BEZHTA LANGUAGE

CHIRIKBA Vyacheslav Andreevich


The author analyzes the children’s vocabulary (baby talk) in the non-written Bezhta language, which is a part of the Avar-Ando-Tsez group of the Daghestan languages. The phonetic processes and morphological means in the derivation of children’s forms are considered. The article contains the corpus of children’s vocabulary of the Bezhta language, as well as the names of animals and birds and their associated verbs, interjections used in the treatment of domestic animals and birds (calling, driving away), onomatopoeic and descriptive words, as well as a number of verbs with expressive semantics.

Pages: 54 - 64

Date: 23.10.2019



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