Jasper Sim is an Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University. He completed a BA (Education) at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2014, and went on to obtain an MPhil in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics from the University of Cambridge, under the supervision of Prof. Francis Nolan. After which, he worked for the Ministry of Education for three years, first as a secondary school teacher, and then as a Curriculum Planning Officer (ELL Secondary) at ministry headquarters. He completed his PhD (2022) in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Prof. Brechtje Post.

Jasper's research focuses on issues that sit at the intersections of child language acquisition, phonetics, and sociolinguistics. His doctoral research and current projects examine child bilingual phonological acquisition in multi-dialectal/multi-accent and multicultural contexts. He takes on an empirical–constructivist perspective in addressing research questions like: 

• what socially-conditioned linguistic variation is there in adult-directed and child-directed speech?


• What is the role of input, and what impact does variable input have on child phonological development?


• what linguistic, input, social and experiential factors account for variation in language outcomes?


• how can we disentangle effects of long-term language contact from the effects of bilingual acquisition?


• how different is the nature of phonological acquisition in multi-accent/multi-dialectal and multicultural contexts from that in less diverse settings?

His secondary research interests are in language variation and change and in issues relating to language, race, and culture. Jasper welcomes inquiries from potential MA and PhD students with research interests relevant to his.