CHILD’S LINGUISTIC WORLDVIEW: EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES

The article examines linguistic representation of the associative area of the word “lyceum” in the linguistic worldview of a child living at the beginning of the XXI century. The child's linguistic world-image by means of language units reflects a certain way of per- ception, comprehension, evaluation of the world in accord with their age and experience. The main research method is the free association experiment, which was attended by 100 subjects (second and third grade students of Birsk Lyceum in Republic of Bashkortostan). Language units of lexico-semantic level are analysed. Experimental studies of the child's linguistic world-image leads to a better understanding of changes in the child's worldview that motivate their behavior