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An influential account claims that whereas children have a “coalition of cues” available during word learning, they initially weight perceptual cues more, only later attending to linguistic and social cues (Golinkoff & Hirsh-Pasek 2007). But do children also rely on perceptual cues over linguistic cues when extending words to unfamiliar contexts, and does this bias lessen with age? We investigate this hypothesis by examining children and adults’ weighting strategies when extending verbs to a variety of novel contexts where cues are placed in conflict.