This study uses dense corpora to analyze the process of first language acquisition of German. It focuses on the development of multi-word statements that are produced as the first creative expressions. Using the traceback method, these statements are tracked in the form of building blocks. In this way, the study demonstrates the significance and growth of lexically specific schemata in the phase of multi-word statements.

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Nikolas Koch, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany.