When intonation overrides tone, part 5

There are three ways to say "Monday" in Mandarin: zhōu yī 週一lǐbài yī 禮拜一 (you can also say this in the shortened form bài yī 拜一)xīngqí yī / xīngqīyī 星期一 As usual with my classes at Penn, most of my students are from mainland China.  I asked one of them to pronounce those three ways […]