Taylor Swift has made years of contributions to music . Now, researchers say, her unique life and career have advanced the study of speech patterns.

Miski Mohamed and Matthew Winn of the University of Minnesota analyzed years of recorded interviews from Taylor Swift's different eras to study how her speech patterns evolved through different phases of her life and career.

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The purpose of their study was to look not only at geographical areas, but also explore how social groups, age, and leadership status can influence the way a person speaks. Thanks to nearly two decades of public recordings, the researchers had a unique opportunity to study Swift and the way her dialect evolved with her career.

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