Fluent English speakers often add sounds between words to link them together. When one word ends with a vowel sound, and the ...

To explore how dialects change over time, you need a single speaker who's lived in different regions and has been recorded a ...

Day-one fans of Taylor Swift know that the pop superstar has come a long way since launching her music career as a country ...

A study by researchers at the University of Minnesota shows that Taylor Swift's accent shifted noticeably during different phases of her career ...

Swift’s vowels lengthened around the time she started singing more pop music, with a clearer distinction between words such ...

The researchers suggest that these changes reflect Swift’s desire to be part of those communities. “I was one of those people ...

The lettter 't' can be pronounced as a /t/ sound at the beginning of words, like 'tin' and 'top', or at the beginning of stressed syllables like 'hotel' and 'cartoon'. It can also be pronounced at the ...

The quotable Du Bois went on to enjoy a distinguished career in academia, but he’s most famous for his role in founding and ...

Love it or hate it, the Rhode Island accent has been around for centuries, and it doesn’t appear to be going anywhere, ...

“Taylor Swift is perfect for this type of longitudinal analysis because she has been interviewed and recorded many times over ...

Having been a French immersion student since the fourth grade, I always thought I’d had a solid command of the language.

Taylor Swift has had many different eras during her two-decade-long career, and now they're at the centre of a language study which could influence the next generation of scientific findings. The pop ...