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wh-movement noun

  /ˌdʌbəlju ˈeɪtʃ ˌmuvmənt/
  • (syntax) a syntactic phenomenon found in many languages around the world, in which interrogative words (sometimes called wh-words) or phrases show a special word order. Unlike ordinary phrases, such wh-words appear at the beginning of an interrogative clause.
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