Consider these sentences:
1. The angry man complained to the manager.
2. The angry about his food man complained to his manager.
3. The man angry about his food complained to the manager.
I won't get into the details of everything that's going on here, but (3) is much "better" than (2), and kids naturally learn that you need to move "angry" or any other adjective to the other side of its noun when it gets a prepositional phrase complement. No parent is ever telling their kid (except a linguist parent, maybe, since they love making their kids subjects), "Remember, Jon, when the adjective has a _complement_, it needs to come _after_ the noun rather than before it."