About
Ingrid Notarrigo is a researcher at the University of Namur specializing in sign language linguistics. Her work focuses on fluency/disfluency markers in French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) and comparative studies with Flemish Sign Language (VGT). She contributes to the Lex-LSFB corpus project and co-leads research on bilingual education for deaf communities.
Education: Completed a PhD in Languages, Letters and Translation (2017) at the University of Namur, supervised by Prof. Luc Meurant and Dr. Anne-Catherine Simon.
Research interests include discourse analysis in sign languages, repetition functions, and sociolinguistic aspects of sign language use. Her work bridges theoretical linguistics with applied projects in deaf education and corpus development.
Key contributions include developing disfluency annotation protocols and analyzing repetition patterns across signer proficiency levels. She actively participates in international sign language research networks and collaborates with institutions like the Ecole et Surdité (Namur).
