Cross-Linguistic Time-Telling Expressions from German, Czech, and Russian Speakers

396 written responses from native speakers of German, Czech, and Russian describing analog clock times. The dataset contains 132 participants per language group, each describing a five-minute interval within a 12-hour cycle. Responses were transcribed and classified into absolute or relative time expressions by author Elena Panfilova.

Use Cases

• Analyze preference for absolute versus relative time-telling systems based on the classification mentioned in the description.
• Compare linguistic expression patterns across German, Czech, and Russian based on the cross-linguistic study design.
• Investigate the reference point hypothesis in time-telling based on the study's stated analytical focus.
• Train or evaluate models for natural language generation of time expressions based on the transcribed, natural language responses.

Strengths

• Contains 396 transcribed responses, providing a corpus for analysis.
• Includes data from three distinct language groups (German, Czech, Russian) with 132 participants each, enabling cross-linguistic comparison.
• Responses were elicited under controlled instructions to avoid numeric formats, focusing on natural language.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and linguistic bias inherent to the participant groups.

Provenance

Source

Panfilova, Elena via DataverseNO Harvested Dataverse.

Collection Method

Elicited written responses from participants describing analog clock stimuli.

Time Range

The stimuli represent a 12-hour cycle from 12:05 to 11:55.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06 10:10:07; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Data originates from speakers of German, Czech, and Russian.