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Menyuk, Paula was born on October 2, 1929 in New York City. Daughter of Louis and Helen (Weissman) Nichols.
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This book offers a unique overview of the current literature of language development. Beginning with an outline of the maturational changes that occur in linguistic knowledge in the period from birth to adulthood, it goes on to discuss the suggested causes for the changes and the controversies about the suggested causes.The theory of generative grammar advanced by Noam Chomsky was responsible for much of the excitement and interest that the study of language development has enjoyed over the past decade. Inevitably, however, some linguists have questioned whether Chomsky's hypothesis of an innate mechanism for language learning, distinct from other types of learning, is a valid model of the way children actually do acquire language competence. Present efforts are directed towards finding an explanation of development and processing of language in the cognitive and social functioning of the human being, but a clear understanding of the basis for language organization eludes proponents of both schools of thought.Language and Maturation summarizes some of the current findings on developmental language behavior in a concise, well-organized, and nonpartisan manner. It begins by describing the explanatory theories of language behavior in the adult and of language acquisition in the child that are current in the literature. The developmental course is then divided into the periods of infancy, early language development, and language development in middle and late childhood. Finally, the question of "adultlike" and "childlike" language behavior is discussed. Introducing each chapter are those questions most germane to an examination of that period of development. Some of the partial answers conclude sections of the discussion.Suitable for upper-level undergraduate or graduate students, the book is addressed not only to linguistics students but also to those preparing themselves to be psychologists, educators, and therapists. "I hope," Paula Menyuk writes in her introduction, "that readers of this book, that is, those interested in language development and processing, will find the questions and answers presented so intriguing and challenging that they themselves will become engaged in in-depth studies of the questions of language and maturation."
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Designed to provide practical information to those who are concerned with the development of young children, this book has three goals. First, the authors offer details about patterns of language development over the first three years of life. Although intensive studies have been carried out by examining from one to 20 children in the age range of zero to three years, there has been no longitudinal study of a sample as large as this--53 children--nor have as many measures of language development been obtained from the same children. Examining language development from a broad perspective in this size population allows us to see what generalizations can be made about patterns of language development. This volume's second goal is to examine the impact of such factors as biology, cognition, and communication input--and the interaction of these factors--which traditionally have been held to play an important role in the course of language development. The comparative influence of each--and the interaction of all three--were examined statistically using children's scores on standard language tests at age three. The volume's third goal is to provide information to beginning investigators, early childhood educators, and clinicians that can help them in their practice. This includes information about what appear to be good early predictors of language development at three years; language assessment procedures that can be used with children below age three, how these procedures can be used, what they tell us about the language development of young children; and what warning signs should probably be attended to, and which can most likely be ignored. In addition, suggestions are made about what patterns of communicative interaction during the different periods of development seem to be most successful in terms of language development outcomes at three years, and what overall indications the study offers regarding appropriate intervention.
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Developmental psycholinguistics educator
Menyuk, Paula was born on October 2, 1929 in New York City. Daughter of Louis and Helen (Weissman) Nichols.
Bachelor of Science, New York University, 1951; Master of Education, Boston University, 1955; Doctor of Education, Boston University, 1961.
Chief language therapist, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1952-1954; teaching fellow, Boston University, 1957-1960; National Institute of Mental Health post-doctoral fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1961-1964; member research staff, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1964-1972; professor education, Boston University, 1972-1998; director division, vice chairman faculty county, Boston University, 1981-1987; chairman faculty county, Boston University, 1990-1991. Consultant Children's Hospital, Boston, 1964-1992, Kennedy Hospital, Boston, 1981-1989, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1972-1980, 89-94, National Foundation March of Dimes, White Plains, New York, 1977-1993. Research associate Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1972-1990.
(Designed to provide practical information to those who ar...)
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( This book offers a unique overview of the current liter...)
( This book offers a unique overview of the current liter...)
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Fellow American Speech, Language and Hearing Association (Distinguished Service award 1976, highest honors 1992). Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society Research in Child Development, Linguistic Society of America, International Society Study Behavioral Development, American Association Phonetic Sciences.
Married Norman Menyuk, March 5, 1950. Children— Curtis R., Diane E., Eric D.