In agglutinative languages casual or fast speech shows less phonological deletion, fusion, and weakening than in flective ones, owing to the lack of syntactic redundancy that follows from the absence of (phrase-internal) agreement.
Standardized
IF morphology is agglutinative, THEN casual/fast speech shows less phonological reduction than if morphology is flexive.
The correlation is intended to comprise three parameters:(i) agglutinative morphology, (ii) no phrase-internal agreement, (iii) little phonological reduction in casual/fast speech;vs.(i) flexive morphology, (ii) phrase-internal agreement, (iii) much phonological reduction in casual/fast speech.
The correlation is intended to comprise three parameters:(i) agglutinative morphology, (ii) no phrase-internal agreement, (iii) little phonological reduction in casual/fast speech;vs.(i) flexive morphology, (ii) phrase-internal agreement, (iii) much phonological reduction in casual/fast speech.