Evidences of Functioning of Cognitive Phonology in Sound Pattern Processing of Uzbek Students - A Cognitive View

<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p> <p>With being learned, Uzbek language learners of English tend to deviate from acceptable or appropriate patterns, and form a „specific" pattern while articulating English words they know. This unrecognized and unconscious act is driven by the learners" knowledge of cognitive phonological awareness. The process of articulation in familiar words of the English language is questionable as it is being patterned and organized in such ways that speakers resort to their independent phonology. This has resulted in distorted patterns called phonological processes, vowel rounding in particular. This paper is an attempt to showcase evidence of cognitive phonology in Sound Pattern Processing (SPP) in English words when observing utterances of students of 8 - 11 grades of an x school. The complexity of the phonological patterns of participants is studied from the perspectives of the theory of RCVP -Radical CV Phonology (Hulst), autosegmental (Goldsmith, 1976), and lexical phonology (Monahan, 1982). The study concludes sound pattern processing can only be achieved with cognitive phonological aspects and the independent-working phonology of the participants has resulted in the exhibition of vowel rounding, a phonological process.</p> <p><strong>Keywords:</strong> Cognitive Phonology Sound Pattern Processing, Uzbek learners of English, Vowel rounding</p>