This study takes an experimental approach to "lingua receptiva" (LaRa), a communication mode in which interlocutors each use their own--different--native language. In contrast to previous work on LaRa, this study investigates the phenomenon in genetically unrelated languages. Native speakers of Estonian and Russian were engaged in a…

Reports on an experiment conducted with native and non-native speakers of English involving a picture-drawing task, where one member of each pair instructed the other in the drawing of simple objects. Results suggest that success or failure of meaning negotiations in providing comprehensible input depends on the point of discourse at which they…