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The Tower of Babble - A version of the 'Tower of Bable,' featuring babies from around the world saying 'ma' or 'mama' in vari

The Tower of Babble

Māma, mama, mamá, ma, mama, mamã, maa, mama, haha and mamī. * The word for ‘mama’ in the 10 most widely spoken languages in the world. When I think about baby language learners, an image that often comes to my mind is of an eight-month-old girl who came to our lab

Caspar reading Babies Laugh at Peekaboo

BookTrust Reading - Babies Laugh at Peekaboo

The Laughing Baby in 14 quotes

The Laughing Baby in 14 quotes

Each chapter of my book The Laughing Baby starts with a short quote or epigram. I was very pleased with these and so a few years ago I posted them all as a thread on Twitter (remember Twitter?). They give a nice summary of the book so I've

Soprano Lucy Knight performs in Musical Rumpus's Opera for Babies - Fogonogo.

Baby opera was humanity's first art form.

For all sorts of reasons opera – even comic opera – is usually no laughing matter. Tom Sutcliffe, Believing in Opera, 1997 Ask any professional musician the secret of good music and they will tell you that above all else, music is about emotion. This perhaps particularly true of opera, where the

Toddler carrying blanket with caption Happy Towel Day!

Life, the universe and Markov blankets

Forty years ago, on 8th March 1978, the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was broadcast on BBC Radio for the very first time. I personally first heard it 12 years later, but since that time it has remained my favourite comedy ever. To celebrate the birthday of this remarkable

The characters Anger, Disgust, Joy, Fear and Sadness from Pixar's Inside Out

Babies and emotion

This weekend I was delighted to receive a beautiful copy of Schadenfreude by Tiffany Watt Smith. It has a close connection to my own book The Laughing Baby because Tiffany and I have compared notes as our various projects have progressed. Tiffany is an historian of emotions and the parent

A time before smiles?

A time before smiles? This is the first chapter from my book The Laughing Baby, coming soon from Unbound. When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about and that was beginning of fairies — Peter Pan, JM

The Laughing Baby

When I ran my survey of baby laughter over a thousand parents responded and nearly a hundred sent in videos. I have enough laughing babies to fill a book. So that's what I am doing.. The Laughing Baby book is about the science of infant learning and why

I wrote a novel.

It doesn't have any babies but it has a few jokes. In fact it's about a stand up comedian who isn't very good at telling them. And it doesn't have much science, but there is some philosophy. Help Yourself - Amazon.co.