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Kim, Ji Young. 2010. The Phonological Effect of Single-word Insertion by Korean Heritage Speakers: Vowel Epenthesis in Word-final Position. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 35-1, 49-70. According to Myers-Scotten (1993), there is a morphosyntactic influence from the matrix language to the embedded language. However, there have been few studies in relation to phonological influence. In this research, I will focus on the phonological influence in code-switching, specifically on single-word insertion. When an inserted word has an illegal phoneme in the word-final position, Korean native speakers are expected to insert an epenthetic vowel. The main objective of this research is to investigate how Korean native speakers and heritage speakers perform when the word-final phoneme is legal in English and illegal in Korean. An oral production task was conducted to examine the existence of an epenthetic vowel after illegal word-final consonant. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)