Romi Román

I am a Ph.D. student in the Hispanic Linguistics program and NSF-NRT Graduate Research Traineeship fellow. My current research interests include Caribbean Spanish, bilingualism, child language and cognition, language acquisition and acquisition of variation. I use corpus, behavioral and experimental data to explore the interaction between child language development and the cognitive mechanisms at play. In my free time, I enjoy learning about plants, cooking and working out.

Publications:

• Roman, R., and Miller, K., (2026). Variable Subject Pronoun Expression in Dominican Spanish: A Case Study of Child Directed Speech and Adult Directed Speech. In Proceedings of the 50th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, ed. by Romi Hill et al., 682–694. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
• Roman, R., & Miller, K. (submitted). Variable Subject Pronoun Expression in Dominican Spanish-speaking Children and their Caregivers.
• Miller, K., de la Rosa, J., Pahis, A., & Roman, R. (resubmitted). Subject-verb Word Order in Spanish Wh-Questions: A Quantitative Study of Dominican Spanish Adult and Child Speakers.
• Roman, R & Romañach Alvarez, A. (resubmitted). From Result to Evaluation: Estar + Adjective Generalization in Dominican Spanish.

Selected Conferences:

• Roman, R., De La Rosa, J., Pahis, A., & Miller, K., (upcoming) “Navigating Variable Input: Dominican Spanish-speaking Children’s Acquisition of Subject Pronoun Expression and Subject-Verb Inversion in Wh-questions” paper presented at the 2026 Hispanic Linguistic Symposium, University of Colorado Boulder, USA. November 7th-9th.
• Roman, R. & Miller, K., (2025) “Acquiring Variation in a Naturalistic Setting: Dominican Spanish speaking Children’s Acquisition Variable Subject Pronoun Expression” poster presented at the 2025, 50th Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston University, USA. November 6th-9th.
• Roman, R. (2025) “La expresión del sujeto explícito en el español dominicano: un estudio cuantitativo sobre la variación y ambigüedad verbal” paper presented at the 2025, 55th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. September 10th-12th.
• Roman, R. “Linguistic Diversity Across the Lifespan (LinDiv): Science Communication” poster presented at the 2024 Annual NSF-NRT Research Traineeship Meeting, Arlington Virginia, USA. October 21st- 23rd.

Pronouns:

• ella // she-her // ela