Question

I don’t know how many …, but it is very noisy in their flat.
(a) children they have
(b) do they have children
© children do they have

I guess (a) is correct, but [size=150]why[/size] - - - > I do not know?

Could anybody substantiate it from a scientific (linguistic) point of view?

The other two are questions (because of the verb “do”).
You don’t need a question to complete this sentence.

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Can anybody tell me under what topic this question can be discussed?
Thanks…

Try looking under “subordinante/dependent clauses”.

For example:
ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar … ub-clauses
grammar.about.com/od/rs/g/subclterm.htm