Jacob And Rachel: The Five Parts Of Language

There are five parts of language that were used to analyze Jacob and Rachel in the video. The five parts of language are semantics, pragmatics, morphology, phonology, and syntax. All of these are different types of spoken language. Let’s take a closer look at each part of language. Semantics deals with the content and meaning of expressions (Thomason, 1996). The book states that semantics is a part of language that is concerned with rules governing the meaning and the content of words or units (Owens, 2008). When we look at the video of Jacob, we see that he answers direct questions given to him. He gives actions of items. One example that Jacob gave was when he heard the word car and he started saying "vroom, vroom." When Jacob hears the word shoe, he points to his shoes while saying "on here." Some associations that we see with Jacob is when he hears the word bed he says "pillow and sheets." Another thing that Jacob is asked is "What does bat mean?" He quickly replies with "owl." He associates a bat 's wings with owl 's wings. As I was looking at Rachel 's video, I noticed that she was naming nouns. One example was the word "Mom." This word was repeated over and over again. I also noticed, like Jacob, Rachel points to objects when she is …show more content…
The textbook definition talks about the rules governing the structure and sequence or speech-sound patterns (Owens, 2008). Some sounds are harder for children to say than others. An example that I pulled from the video of Jacob showed him saying "top" but meaning to say "stop." Another example was when he said "dat" instead of "that." He started to use some rhyming when the speaker asked about a bat and he said "flap." Rachel was talking about a book and she said "doggies mouw" when she meant "doggies mouth." Talking about the doggies arm she pointed and said "doggies awm." She was getting ready to draw and she said "pen plea" instead of "pen