Within the framework of a Russian-Hungarian cross-cultural research, and an interdisciplinary approach, merging the perspectives of Psycholinguistics and Pedagogy together, a study on pre-school children's verbal consciousness was conducted in Hungarian and Russian kindergartens. The investigation is based on the theories and practices of The Russian School of Psycholinguistics [Leontiev 1993; Sorokin 1993;Tarasov 1996], and most of all on its key method, the association experiment [Ufimtseva 2014]. A major objective of the research is to map and compare the 100-100 respondents' verbal consciousness on the basis of ten stimulus words (friend, child, family, water, black, toy/game, devil, home/house, foreigner, and angel). Reactions of the 4-5-yearold children are analysed with corpus linguistic methods [Kilgarriff et al. 2014]. In this article, besides presenting the key findings of the overall data collected, two selected stimulus words (family and angel) are presented in detail.

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