31.3173, All: Obituary: Paula Menyuk

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Subject: 31.3173, All: Obituary: Paula Menyuk

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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2020 21:39:43
From: Nan Bernstein Ratner [nratner at umd.edu]
Subject: Obituary: Paula Menyuk

 
Paula Menyuk, Boston University professor emerita and 1992 ASHA Honors
recipient, passed away in Brookline, MA on October 4, 2020 at the age of 91.
She received her Bachelor of Science from New York University, in1951 and
worked as chief language therapist at Massachusetts General Hospital before
receiving her M.Ed from Boston University in 1955 and her Ed.D. from BU in
1961.

Menyuk served as an NIMH post-doctoral fellow and research staff at MIT before
taking a position at Boston University’s School of Education, where she spent
her entire academic career. While there, she co-founded the Applied
Psycholinguistics doctoral program (now the Applied Linguistics program).
Numerous graduates of that program have gone on themselves to receive ASHA
Fellowship and Honors. As part of the Applied Psycholinguistics program, she
served as co-founder of the Boston University Conferences on Language
Development (BUCLD), considered to be one of the world’s largest and longest
running student-led conference in linguistics, started in 1976 and continuing
to this day. Each year, an NIDCD-funded travel award named in her honor
supports new generations of child language researchers. Paula was the author
of numerous articles and four books, among them Sentences Children Use, one of
the first efforts to translate Chomsky’s efforts in linguistics to clinical
work with language-impaired children. For her efforts, she received ASHA
Fellowship, as well as its Distinguished Service award 1976 and the Honors of
the Association in 1992. She leaves behind three children, numerous
grandchildren and great-grandchildren, as well as dozens of past graduate
students for whom she served as a formidable mentor and teacher.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Clinical Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)



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