
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Why do babies say "daddy" earlier and what might it mean when a baby does call for "mum" or "anne"? Dr Rebecca Woods, from Newcastle University, calls upon her training in linguistics and observations from her own home to trace the way children’s experiences shape their first words and the names they use for their parents.
Rebecca Woods is a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to put academic research on radio.
Producer: Ruth Watts
You can hear more from Rebecca Woods in a Free Thinking discussion about childhood and play when Young V&A opened - it's available from the programme website and as an Arts & Ideas podcast
By BBC Radio 44.3
286286 ratings
Why do babies say "daddy" earlier and what might it mean when a baby does call for "mum" or "anne"? Dr Rebecca Woods, from Newcastle University, calls upon her training in linguistics and observations from her own home to trace the way children’s experiences shape their first words and the names they use for their parents.
Rebecca Woods is a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to put academic research on radio.
Producer: Ruth Watts
You can hear more from Rebecca Woods in a Free Thinking discussion about childhood and play when Young V&A opened - it's available from the programme website and as an Arts & Ideas podcast

7,856 Listeners

303 Listeners

1,115 Listeners

1,077 Listeners

5,496 Listeners

1,816 Listeners

612 Listeners

1,851 Listeners

1,062 Listeners

2,016 Listeners

483 Listeners

594 Listeners

133 Listeners

128 Listeners

160 Listeners

241 Listeners

183 Listeners

212 Listeners

3,213 Listeners

1,042 Listeners

141 Listeners

121 Listeners

92 Listeners

336 Listeners