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“Segmental Insertion and Deletion in English: A Phonotactic Perspective.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 38.3 (2012): 309-328. The goal of this paper is to observe phonotactically motivated segmental epenthesis and deletion in English and provide an alternative constraint-based analysis of them. The two segmentally related processes occur in English to repair phonotactically unallowable coda clusters. A neutral vowel is only epenthesized between two phonotactically unallowable consonants when they have rising sonority from C1 to C2. On the other hand, either of two consonants is deleted when the coda clusters have falling sonority between them or consist of stop consonants. However, when the two coda clusters are separated into different syllables, neither insertion nor deletion occurs. (Chonbuk National University)