I. What Does it Take to Learn a Word?.

II. The Emergentist Coalition Model.

III. The Interactive Intermodal Preferential Looking Paradigm: Camille Rocroi (Johns Hopkins University).

IV. Learning Novel Nouns: Children use Multiple Cues: Rebecca J. Brand (University of Oregon).

V. What Does it Take for 12-Month-Olds to Learn a Word?: Elizabeth Hennon (Temple University), He Len Chung (Temple University), and Ellie Brown (Haverford College).

VI. IS 12-Month-Old Word Learning Domain-General, Socially Determined, or Emergent?.

VII. General Discussion.

References.

Acknowledgments.

Commentary:.

Pushing the Limits on Theories of Word Learning: Lois Bloom (Columbia University).

Contributors.

Statement of Editorial Policy.