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In this paper, we will suggest that the MERGE-based system in Chomsky(2019 a, b, c) and Chomsky et al.(2019) can account for that-trace phenomena in English. To capture this suggestion, we will examine the syntactic and phonological aspects of that-trace phenomena and consider the previous analyses of that-trace phenomena under the framework of Labeling Algorithm in Chomsky(2013, 2015), the upward inheritance of phasehood in Fukuda(2017), and the MERGE-based system in Chomsky(2019 a, b, c) and Chomsky et al.(2019). In particular, we will point out that Goto and Ishii’s(2020) analysis of that-trace phenomena under the determinacy principle in Chomsky et al.(2019) involves some problems and we will suggest that the phonological phenomena in that-trace phenomena can successfully be explained by the MERGE-based system and the principle of determinacy.