Welcome
My name is Victoria Mateu [vɪk.ˈtɔ.ɹi.ə mə.ˈtew]. I’m an Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at the UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
My primary areas of interest are child language acquisition (monolingual and bilingual), heritage and second language (L2) acquisition, morphosyntax, language processing, word/morphological segmentation, and the insights that cross-linguistic and acquisition data can provide on these topics.
Click the links above to access my CV, research (including downloadable papers), and teaching materials.
Recent & Upcoming events
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Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure.
- Awarded Global Research Award for project titled ‘Spanish Language Acquisition in Children: A Transnational Research Collaboration‘ (with Megha Sundara) ($50,000)
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Awarded UCLA Social Impact Collaborative Seed Grant for project entitled ‘A community-centered approach to supporting dual language learning’ (with Megha Sundara & Laurel Perkins) ($50,000)
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Paper in print ‘Number, shape, and intervention effects in child Mandarin passives’ (with Minqi Liu and Nina Hyams). Language Acquisition.
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Chapter in print ‘The Acquisition of Syntactic Categories in a Child’s First Language’ In International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd Edition. Elsevier.
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Paper in print ‘Elided questions in child Spanish: Where do prepositions go?’ (with Nina Hyams) In Proceedings of the 49th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Cascadilla Press.
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Paper in print ’28-month-olds use inferred thematic relations to bootstrap intransitive verb meanings’ (with Laurel Perkins & Nina Hyams) In Proceedings of the 49th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Cascadilla Press.
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Paper in print ‘Intervention effects in the acquisition of Italian sluicing: The role of Number Mismatch’ (with Elena Pettenon & Emanuela Sanfelici). In Proceedings of the 49th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Cascadilla Press.