"Researchers have confirmed what Taylor Swift fans have long suspected: the music megastar's dialect and pitch have shifted throughout her career. In the early stages of Swift's music career, while she was living near Nashville, Tennessee, her speech had the hallmarks of a southern US accent. When she released her pop album Red in 2012, the southern twang had faded, suggest researchers who have analysed her voice. It changed again when she moved to New York City, they say."
"In the study published today in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Winn and his colleague analysed more than 100 minutes of Swift's interviews across three distinct eras of her career. In 2008, Swift released Fearless while living near Nashville; in 2012, she released Red; and in 2019, Lover was released when she lived in New York City. The pair used computer software to track how the pronunciation of Swift's vowels changed."
Taylor Swift's speech displayed southern US accent features early in her career while she lived near Nashville. By 2012, around the release of Red, the southern twang had diminished. Pronunciation changes were tracked across three eras: 2008 (Fearless, Nashville), 2012 (Red), and 2019 (Lover, New York City). More than 100 minutes of interview audio were analyzed with computer software to measure vowel shifts and pitch. Vowel alterations included a shortening of the /aɪ/ vowel in words like 'ride', moving toward pronunciations characteristic of southern US dialects, and other vowel shifts corresponding to relocation and stylistic change.
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