Data for: Language Models, Surprisal and Fantasy in Slavic Intercomprehension

Part a) Three Polish stimuli sentences were presented to pairs of Czech native speakers in an experimental setting where both participants saw the stimulus sentence on their computer screens. Placed in different rooms, they were asked to communicate over skype and work together in order to come up with a good Czech translation of the sentence.

Hence, the experiment output are audio recordings of the two participants trying to decode the stimuli and the written translations they have entered during the experiment. The transcripts are in sheet 1, 3, and 5 of the .xlsx file. Part b) Czech readers (n=23) were asked to translate certain words or phrases within Polish sentences (those that turned out problematic in part a) into Czech in a web-based translation experiment in cloze task design over the website intercomprehension.coli.uni-saarland.de/en/.