... develop-ment of nouns or of verbs or of adjectives, rather than finding a more global andcomprehensive theory of word learning.4 INTRODUCTION Action Meets Word How Children Learn Verbs EDITED BYKathy ... identify verbs. For verbs, phonological cues might be re-quired to draw together a coherent lexical category. For nouns, distributional cues10 INTRODUCTION Action Meets Word Action Meets Word: How ... model of word learning: How to learn a word, any word. In R. Golinkoff, K. Hirsh-Pasek, L. Bloom, L. Smith, A. Woodward,N. Akhtar, M. Tomasello, & G. Hollich (Eds.), Becoming a word learner:...