FWIW at your DD's age my DS had 4 words; dad, ball, gog (dog) and Arcy (Darcy, DD1). Mum didn't come until closer to 20 months. He chatted a lot in his own babble but no real words. We had signs for lots of stuff. I was worried as we approached his second birthday and he still only had a handful of words.
Now he's 4 in Feb, he talks as much, if not more than DD1 who could count to 10 at 12months and say the alphabet and just about every animal sound you could think of at 18months.
Keep engaging her, and chatting and giving a running commentary and reading to her. She sounds like a great little chick.
I know some kids your DD's age who seem to be just like her when it comes to their speech. I know one of them (who's child is a few months older) were taking their child to see a speech pathologist as they wanted to just be sure nothing was wrong and start early intervention if necessary. Unfortunately I don't know how she went. It does sound like she is on the 'normal' range (whatever that is), but I do agree that if you're worried talk to daycare and take it from there.
Reading your post, your DD's speech sounds pretty normal to me. My only advice would be to get her checked out ONLY if it's going to easy your mind. My DS didn't start walking by himself until 19 months (he cruised on furniture for ages before that) but at 2 he had almost no vocabulary that we could understand apart from mum and no and a few animal sounds. He spoke a lot of babble. When he was 27 months we decided to seek a paed's opinion and he told us to send him to daycare a couple of days a week which has helped heaps. We are in the process of going to see a speechie once a week as he's still a bit behind in his speech, but he has had a few word explosions in the last couple of months. He's saying a few 3 word sentences but I'm finding that he's copying us more that putting the words himself iykwim, but has loads of single words now,mostly putting two words together. The frustration your DD displays would be from not being able to communicate the way she wants too. It's very typical for children that are developing their language.
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