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In order to account for a desirable syncope of the English word general, Hammond (1997) and Lee (2002) propose additional faithfulness constraints, FAITH(FINAL) and FAITH (CODA) respectively. However, both constraints are not very well motivated in a principled way. Given this situation of research on the issue of syncope, this paper aims at searching for an independently motivated evidence for those constraints by referring to a universal phenomenon of phonological development. In support of this attempt, a strong emphasis is placed on the examination of the child language development and also on the phonological rearrangement of syntactic structure.