Faculteit der Letteren

 

Recent Submissions

  • Open Access
    Spontaneous puns: The relationship between punning and language makeup 
    Vullings, H.M.A. (2018-07-06)
    Master Taalwetenschappen/Linguistics
    The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between the act of making spontaneous puns and the way a language is made up, both phonetically and prosodically. The study is partly based on a similar study ...
  • Closed Access
    Speech in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy 
    Maas, Janna (2018-07-17)
    Master Taalwetenschappen/Linguistics
    Introduction: The aim of this study was to assess the speech characteristics in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), by studying the speech acoustics and the relationship between speech, the extent to which tongue ...
  • Open Access
    Prosody in speech before and after a total laryngectomy 
    Delft, Merel van (2018-07-12)
    Master Taalwetenschappen/Linguistics
    The impact of a total laryngectomy on verbal communication is extensive. This research included a repeated measures design to investigate the differences in prosody of speech between two recordings; before and after a total ...
  • Open Access
    The Feminist Dystopia: A Literary (Sub)genre? 
    Pigmans, E. (2018-07-10)
    Master Letterkunde
    This thesis examines whether or not feminist dystopian fiction can be seen as a distinct literary (sub)genre. It considers the importance of looking at both internal features of texts and at recognition by the field with ...
  • Open Access
    Broadcast Your Fictional Self: The Metafictional, Transmedial and Interactive World of YouTube Adaptations 
    Zweers, A.W.M.C. (2018-06-15)
    Master Letterkunde
    This thesis sheds light on the relatively new concept of literary web series and their unique relation with their audience. Theories on transmediality and audience interaction are applied to four literary web series. The ...