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+var assert = require('chai').assert;
+var sinon = require('sinon');
+
+let LMLayer = require('../../build');
+var breakASCIIWords = require('../../build/intermediate').wordBreakers['ascii'];
+
+describe('The ASCIIWordBreaker', function() {
+    it('breaks simple English sentences', function () {
+        let breaks = breakASCIIWords('Look! -- The quick brown fox jumps... over the lazy dog!');
+        let words = breaks.map(span => span.text);
+        assert.deepEqual(words, ['Look', 'the', 'quick', 'brown', 'fox', 'jumps', 'over', 'the', 'lazy', 'dog']);
+    });
+});
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