Onomatopeja - językowa anomalia?

The article deals with the ways and aims of the research of the phrases of sound imitating the origin in the Russian language on the comparative basis. From the synchronous linguistic sucha point of view was spread over that the vocabulary of expressive and emotional colouring is of atypical character especially considering the phonetic side. The author tries to attract the reader’s attention to some special features of the functioning of interjections, phrases of sound imitating origin and expressively featured in the areas of the subsystems of phonetics, word-building, syntax, as also in the subsystem of the borrowed phrases, which are usually considered separately. The results of the author’s preliminary research prove that such phrases are rather typical of the Russian language taking into account not only the literary variant of the national language but all the social and territorial divisions