PhD Candidate

Door Spruijt’s research has focused on sign languages since her BA and MA in sign linguistics at the University of Amsterdam. She has worked extensively with both corpus and elicited data from Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT) and the rural Balinese sign language Kata Kolok. She is now a PhD student on the Gesture-to-Sign Trajectory Project, which investigates the facilitating and inhibiting effects of iconicity and the individual phonological parameters on acquiring the lexicon in second language learners of a sign language (L2M2-learners). Understanding these effects will help improve curricula for L2M2-learners, which she, as a certified teacher of NGT, has great affinity with.