TY - BOOK AU - Hollich,George J. AU - Hirsh-Pasek,Kathy AU - Bloom,Lois AU - Golinkoff,Roberta M. ED - Society for Research in Child Development. TI - Breaking the language barrier: an emergentist coalition model for the origins of word learning T2 - Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development PY - 2000/// CY - Malden, MA PB - Blackwell Publishers KW - Language acquisition KW - Local KW - Learning KW - Language Development KW - Child development N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Abstract -- I. What does it take to learn a word? -- II. The emergentist coalition model -- III. The interactive intermodal preferential looking paradigm -- IV. Learning novel nouns: children use multiple cues -- V. What does it take for 12 month-olds to learn a word? -- 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 -- Contributors -- Statement of editorial policy ER -