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 areas of interest are child language acquisition (monolingual and bilingual), heritage and second language (L2) acquisition, morphosyntax, language processing, word/morphological segmentation, 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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Chapter in print 'The Acquisition of Syntactic Categories in a Child's First Language' In International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd Edition. Elsevier. (email me to request a copy)
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Invited talk at Pomona Acquisition Workshop (PAW) 2025 (April 5, 2025)
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Talk presented at the 49th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD 49) 'Elided questions in child Spanish: Where do prepositions go?' (with Nina Hyams) [pdf]
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Poster 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) [pdf]
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Poster 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) [pdf]
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Talk presented at the Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP 2024) 'An experimental study of Catalan consonant alternations' (with Kevin Liang & Bruce Hayes) [pdf]
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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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Paper published in Behavioral Sciences 'Constraints on Acceleration in Bilingual Development: Evidence from Word Segmentation by Spanish Learning Infants' (with Megha Sundara)