This is in line with the typological observation that even nonconfigurational languages favor (at least statisti- 9 We run more simulations in this case as we noticed that the final language depends on the initial seed, and hence there is high variance with only 5 runs.
we start with 5 different parents and simulate 10 generations, repeating each experiment with 5 different seeds cally) certain orders (Hale, 1992;Mithun, 1992) and thus an equiprobable distribution of orders, as it is the case in our free word-order+markers language, is unlikely.