Welcome

 

My name is Victoria Mateu [vɪk.ˈtɔ.ɹi.ə mə.ˈte.u]. 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, Current, & Upcoming events​

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• Paper accepted in Cognition. 'Spanish input accelerates bilingual infants' segmentation of English words' (with Megha Sundara)​

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• Poster to be presented at the 46th Boston University Conference on Language Development  (BUCLD 46). Object wh-questions with psych verbs are easy in child Spanish. Read more about it here.

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• Talk presented at the 51st Linguistics Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 51). On the Acquisition of Spanish Psych Predicates: When Intervention Makes 'Subject' Extraction Harder. Read more about it here.

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• Paper accepted in Behavioral and Brain Sciences 'Improving the generalizability of infant psychological research: The ManyBabies model' (with Ingmar Visser et al.)

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• Paper published in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (AMPPS) 'A multilab study of bilingual infants: Exploring the preference for infant-directed speech.' (with The Many Babies Consortium).​

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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).​​​