Contributors

Word Learning: Icon, Index, or Symbol?

Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

The Intentionality Model of Word Learning: How to Learn a Word, Any Word

Lois Bloom

Learning How to Learn Words: An Associative Crane

Linda B. Smith

Constraining the Problem Space in Early Word Learning

Amanda L. Woodward

The Social Nature of Words and Word Learning

Nameera Akhtar

Michael Tomasello

An Emergentist Coalition Model for Word Learning: Mapping Words to Objects Is a Product of the Interaction of Multiple Cues

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

George Hollich

Counterpoint Commentary

``What Can We Take for Granted in Word Learning?''

Lois Bloom

``Avoiding Associations When It's Behaviorism You Really Hate''

Linda B. Smith

``There Is No Silver Bullet for Word Learning: Why Monolithic Accounts Miss the Mark''

Amanda L. Woodward

``Five Questions for Any Theory of Word Learning''

Michael Tomasello

Nameera Akhtar

``The Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of the Parts, or Why the Emergentist Coalition Model Works''

Kathy Hirsch-Pasek

Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

Index