The study is concerned with the relationship between language and nonverbal behavior. The failure of language measures used in the past to predict nonverbal behavior consistently is discussed. An alternative measure, communication accuracy, is presented. The accuracy with which a color could be communicated from one person to another was determined for each color in 2 different arrays. The ease with which these colors could be remembered, as measured by recognition tasks, was correlated with the communication accuracy score, naming agreement, and brevity of description. Communication accuracy correlated positively with recognition on both arrays, while naming agreement and brevity of description did not. The direction of Ss' recognition errors could be related to the direction of their judgments of the "typical instance" of their color names. The results of the study were interpreted as evidence of the influence of language on nonverbal behavior. (18 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)