Paula Menyuk
Born1929
New York City
DiedOctober 4, 2020
SpouseNorman Menyuk
Academic background
Alma materBoston University
Academic work
InstitutionsSchool of Education, Boston University

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]

Biography

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]

Menyuk's research was supported by the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Army.[9]

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]

Honors and recognition

Menyuk was a Fulbright Fellow in 1971[17] and in 1989.[18] Menyuk received the Honors of the Association award from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association[19] and earned the rank of Fellow within the organization. [20]

Boston University created the annual Paula Menyuk award[21] in her honor to support graduate students attending the annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD).

Selected publications

Books

  • 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.

References

  1. 1 2 "PAULA MENYUK Obituary (2020) Boston Globe". Legacy.com. Retrieved 2022-10-17.
  2. ↑ Menyuk, Paula. "Paula Menyuk Award". Paula Menyuk Award. Retrieved Oct 19, 2022.
  3. 1 2 Menyuk, Paula; Brisk, Maria Estela (2005), "Infant Language Education", Language Development and Education, London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 21–37, doi:10.1057/9780230504325_2, ISBN 978-1-4039-2121-5, retrieved 2022-10-17
  4. 1 2 3 Rosenblith, Judy (July 30, 2003). "SRCD Oral History Interview" (PDF). SRCD Oral History Interview. Retrieved October 19, 2022.
  5. ↑ "BU Wheelock Remembers Dr. Paula Menyuk and Dr. Roselmina "Lee" Indrisano | Wheelock College of Education & Human Development". www.bu.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-17.
  6. ↑ "LINGUIST List 31.3173: All: Obituary: Paula Menyuk". The LINGUIST List. 2020-10-18. Retrieved 2022-10-17.
  7. ↑ "BU Wheelock Remembers Dr. Paula Menyuk and Dr. Roselmina "Lee" Indrisano | Wheelock College of Education & Human Development". www.bu.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-17.
  8. ↑ "BU Wheelock Remembers Dr. Paula Menyuk and Dr. Roselmina "Lee" Indrisano | Wheelock College of Education & Human Development". www.bu.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-17.
  9. ↑ Menyuk, Paula. "Speech Communication" (PDF). Speed Communication.
  10. ↑ Menyuk, Paula. "U.S. Department of Energy" (PDF).
  11. ↑ Menyuk, Paula; Menu, Lise; Silber, Ronnie (1986-05-22), "Early strategies for the perception and production of words and sounds", Language Acquisition, Cambridge University Press, pp. 198–222, doi:10.1017/cbo9780511620683.012, ISBN 9780521277808, retrieved 2022-10-19
  12. ↑ Menyuk, Paula; Chesnick, Marie (1997). "Metalinguistic Skills, Oral Language Knowledge, and Reading". Topics in Language Disorders. 17 (3): 75. doi:10.1097/00011363-199705000-00008. ISSN 0271-8294. S2CID 144070685.
  13. ↑ Teele, David W.; Klein, Jerome O.; Chase, Cynthia; Menyuk, Paula; Rosner, Bernard A. (1990-09-01). "Otitis Media in Infancy and Intellectual Ability, School Achievement, Speech, and Language at Age 7 Years". The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 162 (3): 685–694. doi:10.1093/infdis/162.3.685. ISSN 1537-6613. PMID 2387994.
  14. ↑ Shipley, Elizabeth F. "Review of Sentences Children Use". Language. 46 (4): 931. doi:10.2307/412263. ISSN 0097-8507. JSTOR 412263.
  15. ↑ Elliot, Alison (1981). "Review of Language and Maturation". Journal of Linguistics. 17 (1): 125–130. doi:10.1017/S0022226700006812. ISSN 0022-2267. JSTOR 4175573. S2CID 146265943.
  16. ↑ Adamson, Lauren (January 1983). "Language and maturation. Paula Menyuk. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1977. Paperbook, 1981, $5.95". Developmental Psychobiology. 16 (1): 59–61. doi:10.1002/dev.420160107. ISSN 0012-1630.
  17. ↑ Menyuk, Paula. "Fulbright Fellows 1971 - 2020" (PDF). University of Arkansas Fulbright Fellow directory. Retrieved Oct 19, 2022.
  18. ↑ Menyuk, Paula. "Fulbright Fellow Directory University of Arkansas" (PDF).
  19. ↑ "Honors of the Association Recipients". American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  20. ↑ "Fellowship of the Association Recipients". American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  21. ↑ "Paula Menyuk Award | Conference on Language Development". www.bu.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-17.
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