The pop star and her years of recorded interviews offer a glimpse into the shifting nature of speech patterns.
Taylor Swift performing during her Eras tour (credit: Maura Shapiro), with vocal frequency analysis overlaid (credit: Miski Mohamed and Matthew Winn).
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23, 2025 – Taylor Swift is one of the biggest pop singers in history, influencing millions of fans with her music. Thanks to years of recorded interviews, she is also influencing how we understand the ways that people adopt accents and regional dialects.
In JASA, published on behalf of the Acoustical Society of America by AIP Publishing, a pair of researchers from the University of Minnesota analyzed years of…click to read more
From: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Article: Acoustic analysis of Taylor Swift’s dialect changes across different eras of her career
DOI: 10.1121/10.0039052