How does language develop between 19 and 24 months of age?

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  1.  Intermountain Registered Dietitians
     
    Intermountain Registered Dietitians of Intermountain Healthcare answered:
    Language development from 19 to 24 months of age includes:

    Receptive language skills (what a child understands)
    • identifies up to five body parts
    • identifies common objects and pictures when named
    • recognizes new words daily
    • understands some complex sentences
    Expressive language skills (what a child says)
    • speaks up to 50 words
    • begins using two-word sentences
    • begins using pronouns
    • refers to self by name
    • begins talking about things she is interested in -- things that move, do something, or things she can do something with
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