Of course, this is not to say that children at this early age already master the comparative construction. Although meer in these utterances strictly speaking is the comparative form of veel (much), it is not used to compare one quantity to another, for which the comparative construction would be required. Meer in these utterances is still used in a pivot pattern. It is only much later that the comparative construction and morphology appear. The following examples from the corpus show that children still struggle with the comparative construction, long after the first occurrences of quantitative-meer in a pivot pattern:

i

 als je veel groot is dan ik. (2;08.04)
when you much big is than me.
ii

 ik ben veeuw groot als jij. (3;02)
I am much big as you.
iii

 die 's groter als die. (2;11.12)
that-one 's bigger as that-one.
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