Imitative units in the English and Uzbek languages

The purpose of the study is to identify the typological features of imitative words in the English and Uzbek languages, as well as their semantic and contextual characteristics. In English linguistics, imitative expressions are evaluated as phonetic phenomena according to their formal and etymological characteristics. Their division into types is based on the duration of the noise they represent. In the Uzbek language, imitative expressions are not recognized as sound symbols, but as lexemes with independent meaning. The classification of expressions is carried out according to the source of the expressed sound (noise).
Imitatives in English are lexemes with an independent meaning, which take word-building affixes and act as different parts of speech. The imitative units in this language are mostly monosyllabic. In English, there are more words that mimic sounds, and words that mimic state are categorized as onomatopes. Onomatopoeia in English often has both literal and figurative meanings. In English linguistics, they are also called units of imitation, that is, exclamations.
In the Uzbek language, imitative words are separated from independent or non-independent words and enter the intermediate category or the category of “figurative expressions”. Later, they were separated into a separate group at the morphological level; in English, imitative words are classified as exclamations.
In English, imitative units are treated as lexemes with an independent meaning, but morphologically, in English onomatopoeias are parts of exclamatory words. They act as possessive, participle, determiner, object or case.