3-year-old Zelda always asks 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 the rules of
A) pragmatics.
B) morphology.
C) syntax.
D) phonology.

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Zelda's questions indicate that she is learning to apply the rule of syntax, specifically the auxiliary-inversion rule. This is the grammatical rule that governs the word order in questions, where the auxiliary verb ("is," "are," "do," etc.) is inverted with the subject of the sentence.

3-Year-Old Zelda Always Asks Questions Like "Where Daddy Is Going