The article covers one of the most difficult problems of modern linguistics -the phenomenon of universal sound symbolism, which has long been perceived by traditional linguistics as a peripheral phenomenon. In this study, an attempt is made to find a new approach to solving the problem of perception of the sound-symbolic properties of sounding speech. The approach is based on preliminary study and comparison of phonetic systems of four different languages. In the future, a number of studies of

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... nterlingual sound symbolism are planned based on the material of the expressive vocabulary of these languages, therefore a thorough analysis of phonetic systems seems to be a necessary stage of the study. The author focuses on the articulatory feature of sounds of the four languages and on the interpretation of the obtained results, as well as on the comparative characteristics of the vowels and consonants of the presented languages of different systems.