Philological science

MEANING-CHANGING LANGUAGE UNITS AND QUASIOMONYMS
Sadoqat XOLMONOVA
Senior teacher , Non-governmental educational institution“ Qorako`l ziyo-nur”
Abstract
This article is devoted to the use of quasiomonyms in the Uzbek language, their importance in our language and speech, similarities and differences with the phenomena of homonymy and paronymy, the use of minimal pairs in determining the relevant features of phonemes. Quasiomonyms are words similar in sound or only one sound is different in these words. In the Uzbek language there are units that are united in form and differ in meaning. Examples of them are the phenomena of homonymy and paronymy. There is also a unit in our language that serves to differentiate meanings, they are called quasiomonyms and these units are not sufficiently studied in Uzbek linguistics. This article discusses quasiomonyms in detail and shows their similarities and differences with other units. The article used static (descriptive), opposition, and minimal pairing methods.
Keywords: quasiomonyms (minimum pairs), phoneme, homonymy, paronymy, opposition, integral and differential signs

Introduction
At the heart of any social development is the system of science and education, so it is an indisputable fact that the development of these areas is one of the great tasks. This can be easily applied to the science of Uzbek linguistics, because in this area there are many issues that need to be addressed. For example, there is no consensus on the structure of the phonological system of the Uzbek language. There are different views on determining the phonological status of some phonemes.
The use of quasiomonyms in determining the relevant features of phonemes is almost unexplored. Words or morphemes that are distinguished by the use of a single phoneme and help to determine the phonological status of the phoneme are called quasiomonyms. For example, in the pair of mountains and spots, the phonemes t and d play the role of semantic impoverishment in words. More precisely, the phonemes t and d serve to differentiate the meaning in the above words based on the consonant-consonant opposition. The remaining features of these two phonemes (place, method of articulation) are integral signs. In our minimal pair, the differential sign of resonance serves to differentiate the meaning. So the phonemic level of two opposing sounds requires the presence of two words (quasi-homonyms) in a particular language, which are distinguished by these phonemes.
In this article, we have tried to write about quasiomonyms in the Uzbek language, to reveal their importance in the sound structure, to show the difference between words with a minimum pair of words and units that differ in other meanings.