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This paper analyzes the typology of assimilation (voicing assimilation and place assimilation), focusing on the 'grandfather effect' (McCarthy 2002, 2003a) observed in the case where the assimilation to marked structures is not allowed but the assimilation to unmarked structures is allowed. It recognizes that Hall (2007) accurately points out a flaw in McCarthy (2002, 2003a) where the typological difference in assimilation cannot be explained. This paper, however, shows that contrary to Hall's argument, the flaw has not been caused by the separation of markedness constraints, and proposes that IDENT(F) in McCarthy's analysis should be replaced with MAX(F) constraints. This proposal means that IDENT(voice) should be replaced with MAX(voice) in voicing assimilation and IDENT(place) should be replaced with the universally fixed constraint ranking MAX(dors), MAX(__cor) » MAX(lab) » MAX(cor), MAX(__lab|dors), which originates from Jun (1995), to retain the separation of markedness constraints. Further, this paper shows that the separation strategy of IDENT(F) also accounts for the grandfather effect cases in assimilation.