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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Autism Res. 2012 Feb 22;5(2):109–123. doi: 10.1002/aur.1220

Table 4.

Wh-Question Types Produced by Children

Question type Example
Subject question Who_____has that? Who_____wrote it?
Object question Which one do you want_____? What is he eating_____?
Where question Where’d it go? Where’s the baby doll?
Predicate Nominative a What’s that? What is it? Who is that?
Other wh-question How can you do that? Why won’t it work?
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Also includes predicate adjective questions, such as “what’s blue?” or “who is big?”