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The vocabulary of a typical 19-month-old toddler may consist of as few as ten words or as many as 50. Yours may be able to link two or more words together, and is starting to use more "action" words. Verbs like "go" and "jump" are common, and so is linking a verb with her name (or pronoun), as in "Come me," meaning "Come with me." (It will be some months before she inserts the preposition.) Many 19-month-olds are also well-versed in direction words such as "up," "down," "under," "out," and "in."
What you can doYou'll
also discover that when you read familiar stories, if you pause at
certain points in the text, your toddler will fill in the blank. To test
this, next time you're reading a book that your toddler has heard
dozens of times, pause at the end of a sentence and see what happens. If
Goodnight Moon is a bedtime standard, try this: "In the great green room, there was a telephone and a red ..." "Balloon!" she'll likely shout.
Looking
at picture books with your toddler, and labeling the objects for her,
will help build her vocabulary. While you're at it, explain to her what
the object does, what sounds it makes, or what it feels like. For
instance, you might say, "This is a horse. Horses are big. They run
fast," or "Here's a fire truck. It's red." You get the idea. And if you
want proof that your child understands more words than she can say, when
you're looking at books, ask her, "Where's the red tractor?" or
"Where's the white horse?" and odds are she'll point right to it.