Sound-grapheme-color synaesthesia of consonants in the Komi-Permyak language. Article 2. Discussion of the experiment

The article presents preliminary results of experimental studies of sound-grapheme-color associativity of consonants in the Komi-Permyak language. The obtained data are interpreted within the context of data in the Russian, English and other languages. It is established that color characteristics of the consonants have no direct connection with characteristics of speech sounds. Steady dependence of sound-grapheme-color sy-naesthesia of consonants upon the initial consonant in Russian and Komi-Permyak color names is not observed. It is revealed that sound-grapheme-color synaesthesia of the Komi-Permyaks is not always connected with bilingualism. The Komi-Permyak graphemes do not induce steady connection with the colors whose names were borrowed from the Russian language (green, orange, brown, pink). It is assumed that sound and color associativity of certain consonant graphemes is most likely to be a universal phenomenon. Sound-grapheme-color synaesthesia of other graphemes is conditioned by national specifics, which requires further research.