Victoria E. Mateu
UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Welcome
My name is Victoria Mateu [vɪk.ˈtɔ.ɹi.ə mə.ˈtew]. I'm an Assistant Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at the UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
My primary area of interest is first language acquisition (particularly Spanish morphosyntax). I am also interested in other populations (Spanish heritage speakers and L2 Learners) theoretical syntax, language processing, and word prosody 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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Talk to be presented at the 49th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 49) 'Elided questions in child Spanish: Where do prepositions go?' (with Nina Hyams) ​​​​​​
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Poster to be presented at the 49th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 49) '28-month-olds use inferred thematic relations to bootstrap intransitive verb meanings' (with Laurel Perkins & Nina Hyams) ​​​​​​
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Poster to be presented at the 49th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 49) 'Intervention effects in the acquisition of Italian sluicing: The role of Number Mismatch' (with Elena Pettenon & Emanuela Sanfelici) ​​​​​​
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Talk to be presented at the Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP 2024) 'An experimental study of Catalan consonant alternations' (with Kevin Liang & Bruce Hayes) ​​​​​​
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Poster presented at the International Congress on Infant Studies (ICIS) 'Spanish-learning infants segment disyllabic verbs at 6-months' (with Megha Sundara)​
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Paper published in Languages 'On the Representation of Implicit Arguments in Child Grammar: Short Passives in Mandarin and English' (with Minqi Liu and Nina Hyams)
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Awarded the UCLA Social Impact Collaborative Grant (with Laurel Perkins and Megha Sundara) for our project 'Diversifying language development research in Los Angeles: Learning Spanish and English in children from 0-6'
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Poster presented at the Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD) 'Evidence of word segmentation abilities in German-learning 5-to-6-month-olds' (with Mireia Marimon, Megha Sundara, Barbara Höhle).
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Talk presented at the 54th Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 54) 'Morphosyntactic convergence with passives in heritage Spanish speakers' (with Erin Mauffray)
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Paper published in Behavioral Sciences 'Constraints on Acceleration in Bilingual Development: Evidence from Word Segmentation by Spanish Learning Infants' (with Megha Sundara)
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Talk presented at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) 'Comparing productive and receptive abilities with Spanish periphrastic and se-passives in second language learners' (with Erin Mauffray)​​