Dialect lexis as a source for the study of the dialect language world in the psycholinguistic aspect

The article deals with the lexical opportunities suggested by the Ural dialects for the study of the dialectal language world in the psycholinguistic aspect. The analysis of the language material for association experiments conducted in different settlements of the Ural Region has released world perception peculiarities of the dialect society; also the analysis touched upon the differences of speech-mental operations performed by the dialectal speakers in the course of perception, generation and presentation of the reality. It revealed the dialectal cognitive peculiarities and their representations in the lexis of Russian folk characters.