- Copies familiar expressions, e.g. Oh dear, All gone’
- Uses different types of everyday words (nouns, verbs and adjectives, e.g. banana, go, sleep, hot)
- Beginning to put two words together (e.g. Want ball, More juice)
- Beginning to ask simple questions
- Beginning to talk about people and things that are not present
- Uses gestures, sometimes with limited talk, e.g. reaches toward toy, saying Want it