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Item Is There a Bidialectal Advantage for Regionally Accented L2 Speech Comprehension? Evidence from a Speech Transcription Task(2025-06-15)This study investigates whether experience with regional varieties of L1 Dutch facilitates the comprehension of regionally accented L2 English. Twenty-three L1 speakers of Dutch listened to and transcribed sentences spoken in Scottish-accented English. A multiple regression analysis that included the percentage of content words that participants transcribed correctly as the outcome variable and a measure of their experience with regional varieties of Dutch as the main predictor failed to find a significant effect. Participants with higher amounts of exposure to regional varieties of Dutch (bidialectal participants) were found to have a slight advantage on the transcription task, and this advantage increased in magnitude when comparing only those participants with the highest and lowest relative amounts of experience, but neither of these group differences reached significance. As this study had low statistical power, no conclusion can be drawn about the effects of experience with variability in one's L1.Item Wrongful Convictions in the United States: Race, Gender, and Miscarriages of Justice - Case Studies and Quantitative Insights into a Persistent Crisis.(2025-07-04)Wrongful conviction is a persistent problem in the United States, resulting in lost years, eroded trust in the system, and significant financial costs for both the individual and the state. This problem necessitates a solution, which could be reached with a deeper understanding of the issue. To contextualize wrongful conviction, this research analyzes the Innocence Project exoneree database and the National Registry of Exonerations (NRE), examining the data through the lens of race and gender. This thesis combines data analysis with three case studies that showcase stories of the people behind the data. The case studies analyzed are that of Malcolm Alexander, Nelson Gonzalez, and Tonia Miller. The research suggests that race and gender have a significant impact on wrongful conviction. The intersection of race and gender results in varying experiences and different levels of risk factors for wrongful conviction. To successfully combat the problem of wrongful conviction, these differences must be considered, and a specialized solution is preferred over a homogenous one.Item Anthem for Marginalised Narratives: The Relationship Between Cultural Memory and Homosexual Narratives in Historical War Fiction(2025-06-15)This thesis investigates the relationship between cultural memory and historical war fiction. In order to do so, it focuses in particular on works of historical fiction regarding the First and Second World War that highlight homosexual narratives. Alice Winn’s In Memoriam and Louis de Bernières’ Captain Corelli’s Mandolin are novels that function as examples of such historical fiction. The thesis explores how these selected novels engage with premediations and multi-perspectivity in order to reflect on the established framework of cultural memory regarding warfare, gender, and homosexuality. It aims to demonstrate that In Memoriam and Captain Corelli’s Mandolin practise performativity through their reinterpretation of the canon of cultural memory and traditional forms of cultural memory formation to emphasise their homosexual narratives. Furthermore, this study will show that the novels provide critical reflections upon the exclusionary processes of constructing cultural memory. Keywords: cultural memory, homosexual narratives, historical war fiction, performativity, remembering, genderItem Differences in Gesture Usage Between Spontaneous and Planned Speech(2025-06-15)The aim of this study was to answer the following research question: “How does gesture usage differ between spontaneous and planned speech?”. The study was conducted by having participants take part in an interview task and having them learn their answers from a script and repeat the interview with the participants having prepared their answers. Both tasks were recorded audio-visually, and the co-speech gestures were analysed. Three differences were discovered: In planned speech the gesture space is smaller, the gestures are better structured, and there is a stronger congruence between gesture and speech. All three of these findings are likely a result of the fact that the production of spontaneous speech and planned speech have different cognitive processes which strengthens the idea that there is a cognitive link between speech and gesture.Item From Folklore to Fantasy: How Spinning Silver and The Bear and the Nightingale move beyond retellings(2025-06-15)Fairy tales have long influenced fantasy literature, providing a foundation for storytelling that blends the mystical with the moral. This thesis examines how two English-language fantasy novels, Naomi Novik’s Spinning Silver (2019) and Katherine Arden’s The Bear and the Nightingale (2017), draw upon fairy tale structures and Slavic folklore to create fantasy narratives. By analysing these fantasy novels through a close reading, this research uncovers how contemporary fantasy literature reinterprets folkloric storytelling elements, such as narrative functions, motifs, and characters. It argues that both authors move beyond retellings, using fairy tale logic and folklore to construct immersive, morally complex worlds that reflect and reinterpret folklore for a contemporary audience.
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