College: Jesus College
Email: jhs71@cam.ac.uk
Supervisor: Prof Brechtje Post
Research Topic: Phonological acquisition of contact varieties of English in simultaneous bilinguals
About Me
Jasper is interested in social variation in language and language acquisition. His PhD project focuses on variation in child-directed speech and its impact on phonological acquisition in bilingual children.
Research
Phonological acquisition in first and second languages
Properties of and variation in child-directed speech
Bilingualism
Speech variability
Social variation in language
Language contact, dialects and ethnolinguistic repertoires
Scholarships/Prizes
National Institute of Education (Singapore) Overseas Graduate Scholarship (NIE-OGS)
Publications
Sim, J. H. (2021). Sociophonetic variation in English /l/ in the child-directed speech of English-Malay bilinguals. Journal of Phonetics, 88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2021.101084
Sim, J. H. & Post, B. (2021). Variation in quality of maternal input and development of coda stops in English-speaking children in Singapore. Journal of Child Language. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000921000593
Sim, J. H. (2019). “But you don’t sound Malay!” Language dominance and variation in the accents of English-Malay bilinguals in Singapore. English World-Wide, 40(1), 79–108. https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.00023.sim
Other activities and roles
Co-convenor of the Cambridge Sociolinguistics Circle
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