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Speech Acts Theory, Coarticulation, Affricates, Morphemes, Polysemy -…
Speech Acts Theory
Definition: Rules involved in performing speech acts and accounting for different factors in communicating.
Examples: Understanding the meaning of "Pentagon" in a conversation. The shared understanding of the word.
Characteristics: Speakers and listeners have a shared knowledge of references 
What it's not: A speaker who does not have common or shared knowledge with the listener. Speaker and listener that do not share common feelings about a word.
Coarticulation
Definition: The articulation of two or more speech sounds together. When one speech sound is influenced by a proceeding or following speech sound.
Characteristics: Words that involve a nasal consonant and a vowel. Words that have a nasal speech sound often occur before the consonant sound.
Examples: Sung, Long, Sing
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Affricates
Definition: A phoneme that combines plosive and fricative, beginning with a plosive and ending with a fricative.
Characteristics: The plosive and fricative share the place of articulation. Stop the air then release with fricative.
Examples: "Ch" in "Chat" and "J" in "Jab"
What it's not: Nasal, Trill, Tap
Morphemes
What it's not: Words that cannot be broken down into smaller meanings. Cannot stand alone as an own word.
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Characteristics: Not always a word that can stand alone, but the smallest meaning. Small words that have meaning in a word.
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Polysemy
Characteristics: Emergent bilinguals may be confused when someone refers to words with multiple meanings in a sentence. Ambiguous language. Idioms. Context clues are used to determine the meaning of the word. Literal words vs. non literal words.
Examples: There's a frog in my throat, there's a fork in the road.
Definition: A term to describe words with more than one meaning.
What it's not: Words with a singular meaning. Words that cannot be taken out of context, or confused with literal/nonliteral meanings.