Table 3.

Intercorrelations among factors

Factor	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
1. Semantic similarity	–	–0.29	–0.41	–0.20	–0.14	0.40	–0.10	–0.31	–0.09
2. Number of translations from L1 to L2		–	0.13	0.01	0.42	–0.31	0.10	0.05	–0.43
3. Number of translations from L2 to L1			–	0.22	0.12	–0.51	0.11	0.37	0.13
4. Number of meanings of items translated into L2				–	–0.09	–0.13	0.10	0.22	0.12
5. Number of meanings of items translated into L1					–	–0.11	0.18	0.01	–0.11
6. Concreteness						–	–0.20	–0.37	–0.04
7. Number of senses in Japanese							–	0.37	–0.09
8. Number of senses in English								–	0.12
9. Phonological similarity									–