Victoria E. Mateu
UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese
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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 presented at the Workshop on Locality in Theory, Processing, and Acquisition 'Not all features matter for intervention: Evidence from child Mandarin passives' (with Minqi Liu and Nina Hyams)
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Talk presented at the 97th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America Meeting (LSA 2023) 'Featural Relativized Minimality in Child Mandarin Passives' (with Minqi Liu and Nina Hyams)
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Poser presented at the 97th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America Meeting (LSA 2023) 'Learning unaccusativity: Evidence for split intransitivity in child Spanish' (with Laurel Perkins and Nina Hyams)
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Paper published on Isogloss 'On the acquisition of Spanish psych predicates: When intervention makes extraction of a nominative wh-phrase harder.'
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Talk presented at the 47th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 47) 'Intervention effects in Mandarin-speaking children’s comprehension of passives' (with Minqi Liu and Nina Hyams)
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Paper published in Proceedings of the 46th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 46). 'Object wh-questions with psych verbs are easy in child Spanish.'
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Paper published in Cognition. 'Spanish input accelerates bilingual infants' segmentation of English words' (with Megha Sundara)