Taylor Swift performs onstage during "Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour" at BC Place in Vancouver, British Columbia on December 6, 2024. Kevin Winter/Getty Images
Day-one fans of Taylor Swift know that the pop superstar has come a long way since launching her music career as a country singer — and that evolution is apparent in her dialect, according to speech scientists.
From Tennessee to Pennsylvania to New York, the career of the 14-time Grammy award winner has taken her “in and out of communities that have distinct regional or socio-cultural dialects,” two researchers from the University of Minnesota wrote in their study , published Tuesday in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
Study authors Miski Mohamed and Matthew Winn noted that the singer’s numerous interviews