@inproceedings{arzt-etal-2026-left,
    title = "Left-Branching Transformers Excel at Right-Branching Languages: Data Shapes Word Order Preferences in Language Models",
    author = "Arzt, Varvara  and
      Hanbury, Allan  and
      Blevins, Terra",
    editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi  and
      Dev, Sunipa  and
      Li, Jessy  and
      Elliott, Desmond",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.2476/",
    pages = "56198--56219",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}