Paula Menyuk (1929 - 2020)[1] was an American linguist known for her research in language development and disorders. She is one of the founders of the Boston University Conference on Language Development.[2] At the time of her death,she was Professor Emerita at Boston University.[3]
Menyuk was born in New York City and attended Hunter College High School.[4] She received her Bachelor of Science in Speech Sciences from New York University in 1951. She worked as a chief language therapist at Massachusetts General Hospital[5] before pursuing her Masters of Education in Speech and Hearing from Boston University.[4] Menyuk continued on to receive her Doctor of Education in Psycholinguistics from Boston University in 1961.[4] She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,where she studied with Noam Chomsky,[1] before returning to Boston University for the rest of her academic career.[6]
Menyuk rose as a leading expert in child language development and disorders[7] and eventually obtained the rank of Professor Emerita in the Developmental Studies and Applied Linguistics program at Boston University.[3] Menyuk retired from Boston University in 1998.[8]
Outside of scholarly work Menyuk had a passion for safe environmental implementation.[10]
Research
Menyuk's research focused on the linguistic behavior of children and adolescents,covering topics such as the development of spoken language,prosody,metalinguistic awareness,and reading.[11][12] Other work examined language development in children specifically impacted by otitis media.[13] Menyuk's research has been described as aligning with Chomsky's theoretical perspective and centered around explaining how the faculty of language matures during childhood.[14][15][16]
Menyuk,P. (1969). Sentences children use. MIT Press.
Menyuk,P. (1971). The acquisition and development of language. Prentice Hall.
Menyuk,P. (1977). Language and maturation. MIT Press.
Menyuk,P. (1988). Language development:Knowledge and use. Addison Wesley Publishing Company.
Menyuk,P.,&Brisk,M. (2005). Language development and education:Children with varying language experiences. Springer.
Menyuk,P.,Liebergott,J. W.,&Schultz,M. C. (2014). Early language development in full-term and premature infants. Psychology Press.
Articles
Menyuk,P. (1964). Comparison of grammar of children with functionally deviant and normal speech. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research,7(2),109-121.
Menyuk,P. &Chesnick,M. (1997). Metalinguistic skills,oral language knowledge and reading. Topics in Language Disorder,17,75-87.
Menyuk,P.,Chesnick,M.,Liebergott,J. W.,Korngold,B.,D'Agostino,R.,&Belanger,A. (1991). Predicting reading problems in at-risk children. Journal of Speech,Language,and Hearing Research,34(4),893-903.
Menyuk,P.,Liebergott,J.,Schultz,M.. Chesnick,M.,Ferrier,L. (1991). Patterns of early lexical and cognitive development in premature and full term infants. Journal of Speech,Language,and Hearing Research,34(1),88-94.
Teele,D.,Klein,J.,Chase,C.,Menyuk,P. &Rosner,B. (1990). Otitis media in infancy and development of intellectual ability,school achievement,speech and language at age seven years. Journal of Infectious Diseases,162,685-694.
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