phonotactics and sonary hierachy la.utip.i 26 Jun 2014 piu Logan Streondj lasaiya
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> The phonotactics designed for auxlangs seems to me a neglected subject. 
> 
> Things like scr- and ps- seem common in even many proposed worldlangs.
> 
> Puzzles me.
> 
> Regards to all,                    Leo Moser
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Looked into phonotactics and sonary hierarchy interesting stuff. 
Mkaw is of course one of the example worldlangs with a near complete disregard of phonotactics. 
The reason in Mkaw is to shove as many roots as possible into 4 letter combinations of CCVC and CVCC. 
It's a technical limitation as 32-bit microprocessors fit 4 letters in each register.
Also the human brain can short-term only remember 4+-1 items.

The more common words are more "sonorous" or compliant. 
i.e. language is kwaw (single syllable), 
the name of the langauge being less usable is mkaw (bisyllable (m,kaw). 
a quiet schwa can be used for making the m syllable in mkaw.

In your example with the s, s fricative is somewhat a phonotactic exception, 
lots of natlangs like english use it in a variable sonoary setting.  
For instance ska and ksa are both monosyllables,
so it doesn't really matter,
wheras mwa and wma makes a big difference, 
as wma is bisyllable (w,ma). 
phonotactics and sonary hierachy la.ukit.i 26 Jun 2014 piu Logan Streondj lasaiya