Table 5. Pairwise and partial correlation coefficients for the relation to the number of new connections.

	English			German
related variable	pairwise	partial withoutfrequency	partial without bothother variables	pairwise	partial without frequency	partial without both other variables
connectivity in older network	0.4894	0.4916	−0.5029	0.4436	0.3957	−0.4326
connectivity in recent network	0.9410	0.9321	0.9331	0.9499	0.9247	0.9275
frequency	0.3854	/	−0.0623	0.5790	/	−0.0727