ИСТИНА

Nouns denoting voice sounds can mean single or multiple, short or prolonged sounding; they can imply one or many sound producers. These specific features result in possibility / impossibility to create the plural form or the meaning of this form by such nouns. The Russian nouns GALDEŽ ‘hubbub, din’ (in its 2 meanings), GAM ‘clamour’, GVALT ‘uproar’, GOMON ‘hubbub’, OR ‘shouting’, KRIK ‘cry’, ‘shout’ (in its 3 meanings) and VOPL’ ‘scream’, ‘yell’ are considered in the paper in terms of the above mentioned criteria.