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] 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.
[10] 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.
[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.