Welcome

 

My name is Victoria Mateu [vɪk.ˈtɔ.ɹi.ə mə.ˈte.ʊ]. 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, and teaching materials.

Recent, Current, & Upcoming events:​

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• Currently conducting an online experimental study investigating the acquisition of Spanish wh-questions with actional and psych verbs (class III, e.g., gustar 'please'). Read more about it here.

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• Paper published in Language Acquisition. 'Structural Intervention Effects in the Acquisition of Sluicing' (with Nina Hyams)

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• Paper accepted in Journal of Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics. 'The syntax and acquisition of Mandarin sluice-like constructions' (with Minqi Liu & Nina Hyams).​

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• Paper accepted in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (AMPPS) 'Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed speech preference.' (with The Many Babies Consortium).​

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