Zelda,3,is always asking questions like "Where Daddy is going?" and "What Mommy is doing?" This indicates that she is yet to learn the auxiliary-inversion rule and to apply rules of:

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Syntax refers to the rules governing the structure of sentences in a language. The use of auxiliary verbs and subject-verb inversion is a syntactic rule. Zelda's tendency to ask questions without correctly using auxiliary verbs or subject-verb inversion indicates that she is still in the process of acquiring this rule. The other options (pragmatics, morphology, and phonology) are not directly related to the use of auxiliary verbs in questions.

Zelda,3,is Always Asking Questions Like "Where Daddy Is Going?" and "What