RESEARCH OF PERCEPTION OF SONORITY AND VOICELESSNESS PARAMETER IN JAPANESE ONOMATOPOETIC LEXIS BY NATIVE SPEAKERS OF RUSSIAN

In this article the results of psycholinguistic research of perception of six onomatopoetic units in Japanese by native speakers of Russian are analyzed. It is revealed that there is a correlation between sonority of the first phoneme of a part of complex onomatopoetic unit of C1V1C2V2-C1V1C2V2 model and categories “massiveness”, “largeness” in its perception. The key to the future studying of other categories perception, which are marked out at the description of the Japanese onomatopoeia, is given.