"wh-movement" meaning in English

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          "word": "A-bar movement"
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        "(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."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "wh-in-situ"
        },
        {
          "word": "wh-island"
        },
        {
          "word": "wh-word"
        },
        {
          "word": "parasitic gap"
        }
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        {
          "word": "wh-extraction"
        },
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          "word": "wh-fronting"
        }
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        {
          "code": "yue",
          "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
          "sense": "special order in interrogative sentences",
          "word": "疑問詞移位"
        },
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          "code": "yue",
          "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
          "roman": "ji⁴ man⁶ ci⁴ ji⁴ wai⁶",
          "sense": "special order in interrogative sentences",
          "word": "疑问词移位"
        },
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "special order in interrogative sentences",
          "word": "疑問詞移位"
        },
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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          "sense": "special order in interrogative sentences",
          "word": "疑问词移位"
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          "roman": "peremeščénije voprosítelʹnyx slóv",
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      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "special order in interrogative sentences",
      "word": "疑問詞移位"
    },
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      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "ji⁴ man⁶ ci⁴ ji⁴ wai⁶",
      "sense": "special order in interrogative sentences",
      "word": "疑问词移位"
    },
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "special order in interrogative sentences",
      "word": "疑問詞移位"
    },
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yíwèncí yíwèi",
      "sense": "special order in interrogative sentences",
      "word": "疑问词移位"
    },
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      "roman": "peremeščénije voprosítelʹnyx slóv",
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