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Re:"shi1 shi4 shi2 shi1 shi3" - a Chinese tongue twister by nivekastoreth on Tuesday September 07, 2010 @11:37AM (#1669114)
http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/rsc/audio/voice_pinyin_cl/shi1.... (shī)

http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/rsc/audio/voice_pinyin_cl/shi2.... (shí)

http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/rsc/audio/voice_pinyin_cl/shi3.... (shǐ)

http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/rsc/audio/voice_pinyin_cl/shi4.... (shì)

For the falling-then-raising (shǐ) changing the "shi3" to "chi3" in the URL gives a better idea, I think, for what the inflection sounds like.

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Re:"shi1 shi4 shi2 shi1 shi3" - a Chinese tongue twister by nwomack on Wednesday September 08, 2010 @12:54AM (#1671072)
Agree on the last point -- at least, for Taiwan. In fact, those idealized graphs caused me a bit of a headache early on. Native mandarin speakers in Taiwan tend to drop the end of the 3rd tone, so it falls slowly then holds at the bottom for a minute, then rises slightly or even just cuts off.
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