LMs trained on corpora that never show multi-modifier noun phrases still prefer English's scope-homomorphic modifier order, and noun-modifier association strength does not explain this preference.
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Language Models Generalize to Human-like Word Order Preferences
LMs trained on corpora that never show multi-modifier noun phrases still prefer English's scope-homomorphic modifier order, and noun-modifier association strength does not explain this preference.