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This paper is to analyze palatalization that has phonologically derived environment effects in English by means of Local Constraint Conjunction(LC), which is a way of combining constraints. In classic Optimality Theory, markedness constraints evaluate output well-formedness, whereas faithfulness constraints evaluate input-output disparity. Thus, markedness constraints have access only to the output while faithfulness constraints view both the input and output. However, current research in phonology suggests that the boundary between markedness and faithfulness constraints is no longer clear-cut. In this paper, We account for palatalization that has derived environment effects by using locally conjoined constraints of markedness and faithfulness. This paper argues that a markedness constraint is conjoined with a faithfulness constraint, so that the markedness constraint is active and able to compel a phonological alternation, only when the faithfulness constraint is violated.