Psycholinguistic Aspects of Perception of Anloamericanisms by Native Speakers of the Ukrainian Language

The abstract deals with the problem of the Angloamericanisms perception by the Ukrainian speakers. The ways of loan adaptation have been shown. The Angloamericanisms have been characterized according to the psycholinguistic procedure of language associations on the basis of associative experiment with 100 reviewed informants. An experimental list consists of twenty words related to the most frequent thematic subsystems in the adopting language: business, economy, entertainments, sport and fashion. The types of psychological components identification are characterized. The comparable analysis of results has proved that the assimilation of the loans is high enough. However, the respondents demonstrated the large creativity in determination of semantics and in presentation of associative reactions on the loans, which testify to aspiration to show their linguistic abilities