I am an Assistant Professor (term-appointed) at the Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto. My research investigates morphosyntactic structure and processing. Specifically, I examine the nature of grammatical properties and phenomena (with a special interest on morphologically rich languages such as Tagalog and Philippine-type languages), and the real-time mechanisms involved in the comprehension and production of sentences, using a variety of experimental methods.
I also maintain an active interest on how these morphosyntactic properties are acquired by children, and are lost due to cognitive decline or damage, such as in aphasia and other language disorders, with the goal of utilizing these linguistic and psycholinguistic findings to inform clinical speech-language pathology practice in these populations.
Office: Sidney Smith 6027C
100 St. George St., Toronto, ON
M5S 3G3
Email: ivan.bondoc@utoronto.ca
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PhD in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Certification in Measurement and Statistics, College of Education, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Master's Degree in Linguistics, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines Diliman
Bachelor's Degree in Speech Pathology, College of Allied Medical Professions, University of the Philippines Manila
Bondoc, I. P. & Schafer, A. J. (2025). Expectation and integration processes in flexible word order processing: interactions of voice and verb semantics in Tagalog. Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 9(1), 27-54. doi: 10.1007/s41809-024-00160-8
Bondoc, I. P. & Kush, D. (2024, May). Animacy does not modulate the subject relative clause advantage in Tagalog. Poster presented at the 37th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Bondoc, I. P. & Schafer, A. J. (2023). Agent-first and pivot-second constraint effects in the online sentence processing of Tagalog flexible word order. Philippine Journal of Linguistics, 54, 44-65.
Bondoc, I. P. & Schafer, A. J. (2022). Differential effects of agency, animacy, and syntactic prominence on production and comprehension: Evidence from a verb-initial language. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. doi: 10.1037/cep0000280
Bondoc, I. P., Tang, S., Mamuyac, E., & De Leon, J. A. (2025). Comparison of Monolingual and English-dominant Bilingual Filipino Performance in English Neuropsychological Measures. Talk presented at the 2025 Philippine Association of Speech-Language Pathologists (PASP) Convention, Muntinlupa, Philippines. July.
Kim, Y.-H. K., Bondoc, I. P., Mamuyac, E., De Leon, J., & Europa, E. (2025). Pilot Results from the Sentence Repetition Subtest of the CATS Battery for Filipino-Americans and Filipino-Canadians. Talk presented at the Bilingualism and Multilingualism Conference 2 (BAM2), Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. May.
De Leon, J., Bondoc, I. P., Mamuyac, E., Europa, E., Posecion, L., Kintanar, L. C., Roco, N., Lamoca, M., Escueta, N., & Ta Park, V. M. (2023). The development of the Cognitive Assessment for Tagalog Speakers (CATS): A culturally and linguistically tailored test battery for Filipino Americans. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions, 9, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1002/trc2.12418
Bondoc, I. P., O’Grady, W., Deen, K., & Tanaka, N. (2018). Agrammatism in Tagalog: Voice and relativisation. Aphasiology, 32(5), 598-617. doi: 10.1080/02687038.2017.1366417
Bondoc, I. P., Mabag, V. D., Dacanay, C. A., & Macapagal, N. D. (2017). Speech-language pathology research in the Philippines in retrospect: Perspectives from a developing nation. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 19(6), 628-636. doi: 10.1080/17549507.2016.1226954
Garcia, R., Albert, H. M. D., Bondoc, I. P., & Marzan, J. C. B. (2023). Collecting language acquisition data from understudied urban communities: A reply to Cristia et al. Journal of Child Language. doi: 10.1017/S0305000922000721
Tanaka, N., Bondoc, I. P., & Deen, K. (2022). Examining main clause similarity and frequency effects in the production of Tagalog relative clauses. Journal of Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 15(2), 70–86. http://hdl.handle.net/10524/52506
Tanaka, N., O’Grady, W., Deen, K., & Bondoc, I. P. (2019). An asymmetry in the acquisition of relative clauses: Evidence from Tagalog. First Language, 39(6), 618-632. doi: 10.1177/0142723719859090
Bondoc, I. P., Deen, K., Or, E. M., & Hemedes, M. C. (2019). Reflexives in adult and child Tagalog. In M. M. Brown & B. Dailey, The Proceedings of the 43nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 82-93). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Bondoc, I. P., O’Grady, W., Deen, K., & Tanaka, N. (2018, May). Effects of pronoun case on sentence comprehension among Tagalog children. Poster presented at the 25th Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, Taipei, Taiwan.
Bondoc, I. P., O’Grady, W., Deen, K., Tanaka, N., Chua, E. C., De Leon, A. C., & Siscar, J. A. (2018). More relativization asymmetries: Children find locative and benefactive clauses difficult. In A. B. Bertolini & M. J. Kaplan, The Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 72-85). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Deen, K., Bondoc, I. P., Camp, A., Estioca, S., Hwang, H., Shin, G., Takahashi, M., Zenker, F., & Zhong, J. (2018). Repetition brings success: Revealing knowledge of the passive voice. In A. B. Bertolini & M. J. Kaplan, The Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. (pp. 200-213). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Bondoc, I. P. & Schafer, A. J. (2022, May). Pivot accessibility and quantifier float in Tagalog: An experimental investigation. 31st Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Association, Honolulu, HI.
Bondoc, I. P. (2020). Revisiting relativization asymmetries in Philippine-type voice languages: A preliminary study. The Archive: A Journal Dedicated to the Study of Philippine Languages and Dialects, 1(1-2), 1-34.
Bondoc, I. P. & Schafer, A. J. (2019, May). Revisiting Tagalog word order preferences. 26th Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA26), Western Ontario, ON.
Or, E. M. & Bondoc, I. P. (2019, January). A field report on Iraya: Preliminary findings on language vitality and morphosyntax. Poster presented at the NINJAL-SGRL-UHM Linguistics Workshop: Grammatical Descriptions of Endangered and Understudied Languages and Dialects in East Asia and Beyond.
LIN200H1F: Introduction to Language (Fall 2025)
LIN305H1F: Quantitative Methods in Linguistics (Fall 2025)
LIN102H1S: Sentence Structure and Meaning (admin only; Winter 2026)
JLS476H1F: Linguistics in the Workforce - Clinical Practice and Research (Fall 2025)
JLS472H1S: Child Language Disorders (Winter 2026)
JLP374H1F: Psychology of Language
JLP471H1F: Advanced Psycholinguistics
LIN405H1F: Advanced Quantitative Methods in Linguistics
LIN204H1S: English Grammar
LIN232H1F: Syntactic Patterns in Language
LIN49X/COG49X: Independent Study
LIN1104H1F: Quantitative Methods in Linguistics (graduate)
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