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There is an order of adjectives, but also an order of adjuncts. To be clear, anything that is not syntactically necessary for the meaning of a sentences is an adjunct, so adjectives are technically adjuncts too. However, while prepositional phrases can be moved around a bit more easily than adjectives relatively, there are still comparable differences. For instance, adjuncts for physical descriptions have a less close relationship than ones that describe other qualities, so one can say "the student |of linguistics| |with three children|", but not "the student |with three children| |of linguistics|".