2 AcknowledgmentsWe thank the participating schools in Delmenhorst and Bremen for their collaboration, and our >10 student assistants for their invaluable help. This research was partially supported by a HWK fellowship (Hanse Institute for Advanced Studies, Delmenhorst, Germany) awarded to Kenny Coventry, and by DFG funding for SFB/TR8 Spatial AbstractThis paper addresses the impact of dialogue strategies and functional features of spatial arrangements on communicative success. To examine the sharing of cognition between two minds in order to achieve a joint goal, we collected a corpus of 24 extended German-language dialogues in a referential communication task that involved furnishing a dolls' house. Results show how successful communication, as evidenced by correct placement of furniture items, is affected by a) functionality of the furniture arrangement, b) previous task experience, and c) dialogue features such as description length and orientation information. To enhance research in this area, our 'Dolldialogue' corpus is now available as a free resource on www.dolldialogue.space.3

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