My LO is 13 months and we've noticed he's doing a lot more imitating lately and finally adding some words to his Dada-centric vocabulary! The only thing is that he doesn't seem to complete any of his words... Car is "caaaa". Apple is "pull". Our cat (Bear) is "bea". Bird is "bir", etc.

He definitely knows what each of those objects are and uses the term consistently and correctly, but he never says the whole word (except Dada).

Is this normal for this age, or should he be saying the whole words? He had some babbling delays because of ear fluid problems, so this is all new to us since he finally got his tubes 2 months ago.