diff --git a/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/LatinIME.java b/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/LatinIME.java
index ad0c1c8b3..883c9469b 100644
--- a/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/LatinIME.java
+++ b/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/LatinIME.java
@@ -2021,9 +2021,6 @@ public class LatinIME extends InputMethodService implements KeyboardActionListen
     // Returns true if we did an autocorrection, false otherwise.
     private boolean handleSeparator(final int primaryCode, final int x, final int y,
             final int spaceState) {
-        if (ProductionFlag.USES_DEVELOPMENT_ONLY_DIAGNOSTICS) {
-            ResearchLogger.latinIME_handleSeparator(primaryCode, mWordComposer.isComposingWord());
-        }
         boolean didAutoCorrect = false;
         if (mWordComposer.isCursorFrontOrMiddleOfComposingWord()) {
             // If we are in the middle of a recorrection, we need to commit the recorrection
@@ -2047,6 +2044,9 @@ public class LatinIME extends InputMethodService implements KeyboardActionListen
                 mSettings.getCurrent().isUsuallyPrecededBySpace(primaryCode)) {
             promotePhantomSpace();
         }
+        if (ProductionFlag.USES_DEVELOPMENT_ONLY_DIAGNOSTICS) {
+            ResearchLogger.latinIME_handleSeparator(primaryCode, mWordComposer.isComposingWord());
+        }
         sendKeyCodePoint(primaryCode);
 
         if (Constants.CODE_SPACE == primaryCode) {
@@ -2594,10 +2594,10 @@ public class LatinIME extends InputMethodService implements KeyboardActionListen
     public void promotePhantomSpace() {
         if (mSettings.getCurrent().shouldInsertSpacesAutomatically()
                 && !mConnection.textBeforeCursorLooksLikeURL()) {
-            sendKeyCodePoint(Constants.CODE_SPACE);
             if (ProductionFlag.USES_DEVELOPMENT_ONLY_DIAGNOSTICS) {
                 ResearchLogger.latinIME_promotePhantomSpace();
             }
+            sendKeyCodePoint(Constants.CODE_SPACE);
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/research/ResearchLogger.java b/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/research/ResearchLogger.java
index c5a6f6bae..f426d58d5 100644
--- a/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/research/ResearchLogger.java
+++ b/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/research/ResearchLogger.java
@@ -198,6 +198,11 @@ public class ResearchLogger implements SharedPreferences.OnSharedPreferenceChang
     private Handler mUserRecordingTimeoutHandler;
     private static final long USER_RECORDING_TIMEOUT_MS = 30L * DateUtils.SECOND_IN_MILLIS;
 
+    // Stores a temporary LogUnit while generating a phantom space.  Needed because phantom spaces
+    // are issued out-of-order, immediately before the characters generated by other operations that
+    // have already outputted LogStatements.
+    private LogUnit mPhantomSpaceLogUnit = null;
+
     private ResearchLogger() {
         mStatistics = Statistics.getInstance();
     }
@@ -1291,17 +1296,32 @@ public class ResearchLogger implements SharedPreferences.OnSharedPreferenceChang
     /**
      * Log a call to LatinIME.sendKeyCodePoint().
      *
-     * SystemResponse: The IME is inserting text into the TextView for numbers, fixed strings, or
-     * some other unusual mechanism.
+     * SystemResponse: The IME is inserting text into the TextView for non-word-constituent,
+     * strings (separators, numbers, other symbols).
      */
     private static final LogStatement LOGSTATEMENT_LATINIME_SENDKEYCODEPOINT =
             new LogStatement("LatinIMESendKeyCodePoint", true, false, "code");
     public static void latinIME_sendKeyCodePoint(final int code) {
         final ResearchLogger researchLogger = getInstance();
-        researchLogger.enqueueEvent(LOGSTATEMENT_LATINIME_SENDKEYCODEPOINT,
-                Constants.printableCode(scrubDigitFromCodePoint(code)));
-        if (Character.isDigit(code)) {
-            researchLogger.setCurrentLogUnitContainsDigitFlag();
+        final LogUnit phantomSpaceLogUnit = researchLogger.mPhantomSpaceLogUnit;
+        if (phantomSpaceLogUnit == null) {
+            researchLogger.enqueueEvent(LOGSTATEMENT_LATINIME_SENDKEYCODEPOINT,
+                    Constants.printableCode(scrubDigitFromCodePoint(code)));
+            if (Character.isDigit(code)) {
+                researchLogger.setCurrentLogUnitContainsDigitFlag();
+            }
+            researchLogger.commitCurrentLogUnit();
+        } else {
+            researchLogger.enqueueEvent(phantomSpaceLogUnit, LOGSTATEMENT_LATINIME_SENDKEYCODEPOINT,
+                    Constants.printableCode(scrubDigitFromCodePoint(code)));
+            if (Character.isDigit(code)) {
+                phantomSpaceLogUnit.setMayContainDigit();
+            }
+            researchLogger.mMainLogBuffer.shiftIn(phantomSpaceLogUnit);
+            if (researchLogger.mUserRecordingLogBuffer != null) {
+                researchLogger.mUserRecordingLogBuffer.shiftIn(phantomSpaceLogUnit);
+            }
+            researchLogger.mPhantomSpaceLogUnit = null;
         }
     }
 
@@ -1311,12 +1331,18 @@ public class ResearchLogger implements SharedPreferences.OnSharedPreferenceChang
      * SystemResponse: The IME is inserting a real space in place of a phantom space.
      */
     private static final LogStatement LOGSTATEMENT_LATINIME_PROMOTEPHANTOMSPACE =
-            new LogStatement("LatinIMEPromotPhantomSpace", false, false);
+            new LogStatement("LatinIMEPromotePhantomSpace", false, false);
     public static void latinIME_promotePhantomSpace() {
+        // A phantom space is always added before the text that triggered it.  The triggering text
+        // and the events that created it will be in mCurrentLogUnit, but the phantom space should
+        // be in its own LogUnit, committed before the triggering text.  Although it is created
+        // here, it is not added to the LogBuffer until the following call to
+        // latinIME_sendKeyCodePoint, because SENDKEYCODEPOINT LogStatement also must go into that
+        // LogUnit.
         final ResearchLogger researchLogger = getInstance();
-        final LogUnit logUnit;
-        logUnit = researchLogger.mMainLogBuffer.peekLastLogUnit();
-        researchLogger.enqueueEvent(logUnit, LOGSTATEMENT_LATINIME_PROMOTEPHANTOMSPACE);
+        researchLogger.mPhantomSpaceLogUnit = new LogUnit();
+        researchLogger.enqueueEvent(researchLogger.mPhantomSpaceLogUnit,
+                LOGSTATEMENT_LATINIME_PROMOTEPHANTOMSPACE);
     }
 
     /**