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tones - jiu3 pronounced as jiu4 ; linked speech feature or slip of the ...
In Mandarin should there be any difference between the pronunciation of the pinyin final in "jiu" and the pronunciation of the pinyin whole word "you"?
Edit: some arbitrary decision seems to have been made by choosing you instead of yu, but with other initials, the choice was: liu, niu, jiu, etc. when the phoneme /ou/ in all cases is the same and one could reasonably expect them to be written the same, or at least to be a good reason as to why it isn't the case.
The classic sentence for multiple tone 3s is “Old Li buys good wine.” 老 李 買 好 酒 In citation form they are all tone 3s, of course: lao3 Li3 mai3 hao3 jiu3 Which ones change to tone 2? It basically depends on how fast you are speaking. If you are speaking slowly and carefully, only the tones that are within a phrase will assimilate. Here these are “lao Li” and “hao jiu”. So ...
Blackgreen's answer is an excellent resource, but I would also like to mention that the ABC dictionary is a valuable alternative that gives even more (albeit in an uncompiled format): it also gives the 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc most common character, for a given pronunciation (pinyin, including the tone). You can buy a paper copy (probably - I haven't tried) or add it to the Pleco app (as a paid add ...