Table 6. Stimuli characteristics for cognate and noncognate matched groups.
| Variable | Cognate | Noncognate | P value(t-test) |
| Length | 5.22 | 5.18 | 0.90 |
| Number of syllables | 1.55 | 1.55 | 1.00 |
| Mean decisionlatencies (ms) | 617 | 620 | 0.80 |
| Mean decision accuracy | 0.98 | 0.97 | 0.40 |
| L1 concreteness (scale 1–7) | 4.42 | 4.39 | 0.88 |
| Orthographic neighborhoodsize | 6.62 | 6.13 | 0.69 |
| Number of senses:English | 7.65 | 6.95 | 0.50 |
| Number of senses:Japanese | 1.83 | 2.27 | 0.20 |
| Log frequency per millionwords (BNC) | 7.72 | 7.57 | 0.60 |
| Log frequency per millionwords (AK) | 6.86 | 7.70 | <0.01 |
| Phonological similarity | 3.42 | 1.11 | <0.01 |
| Semantic similarity | 4.32 | 4.24 | 0.34 |
| Part-of-Speech: | |||
| Nouns | 19 | 21 | NA |
| Nouns/Verbs | 30 | 22 | NA |
| Verbs | 0 | 2 | NA |
| Adjectives | 1 | 0 | NA |
| Adj-Verb-Noun-Adverb | 10 | 15 | NA |