Universal 709:
- Original
- Systems in which high tones are marked occur more often than systems in which low tones are marked.
- Standardized
- Marked tones tend to be high rather than low.
- Keywords
- tone, markedness
- Domain
- phonology
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- statistical
- Basis
- unspecified
- Source
- Holenstein 1985: 143
- Counterexamples
Cf. #719.