Welcome

 

My name is Victoria Mateu [vɪk.ˈtɔ.ɹi.ə mə.ˈte.ʊ]. I completed my Ph.D. in 2016 at the UCLA Department of Linguistics and then held a position as Lecturer in Linguistics and Lab Manager of the UCLA Language Lab for three years. I am currently 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 but also English). My research generally investigates whether children’s difficulties in the syntactic domain have their roots in their developing grammar, or their developing performance system. I am also interested in 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 & Upcoming events:​

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• NOV. 7-10, 2019 : Talk at 44th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 44) , Boston, MA. Late intervention effects in Mandarin sluice acquisition (with Minqi Liu & 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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• SEP. 12-14, 2019: Talk at 14th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA 14), Milan, Italy. Sluicing in Child Mandarin: Effects of Lexical Ambiguity (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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• JUL. 1, 2019: I join the faculty of the UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese as an Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics.

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• JUN. 23-28, 2019: Talk at International Symposium on Bilingualism 12 (ISB12), Edmonton, Canada. Dual language input facilitates English-learning infants' word segmentation abilities (with Megha Sundara).​​

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• JUN. 7, 2019: Talk at Harbor-UCLA Neurology Grand Rounds, Torrance, CA. On the structure and acquisition of the Human Language.

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• Paper accepted in Language Acquisition 'Intervention effects in the acquisition of raising: Evidence from English and Spanish'

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• Obtained Non-Senate Faculty Professional Development Award for the year 2018-2019.​

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• Paper accepted in Cognition 'Lexical stress constrains English-learning infants’ segmentation in a non-native language' (with Megha Sundara)​.

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• JAN. 3-6, 2019: Poster at LSA 2019, New York, NY. Intervention and animacy: A look at relative clauses and sluices in child English.​

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