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This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute.

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Ordinarily, you'd call a pistachio a pistachio.

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But if you're, for example, an immigrant from China and you've just seen a Ming vase, you might call a pistachio a "happy nut".

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Because visual cues can affect language in people with multiple cultural experiences.

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That's according to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Researchers performed various tests with students who had come to the U.S.from China.

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In one, the students heard a recorded conversation, in English, about campus life.

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But some looked at a Chinese face while they listened, while others saw a Caucasian face.

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The students then spoke about their own lives.

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And the Chinese-American students who had listened while looking at a Chinese face spoke English more slowly and less fluently than those who listened while looking at the Caucasian face.

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In another test, when the students were exposed to Chinese icons, they were more likely to translate from Chinese into English literally.

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Thus pistachios became "happy nuts," which is the name in China.

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This phenomenon demonstrates that immigrants struggling with a new language can face unusual and unanticipated challenges.

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And that what you see can affect what you say.

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Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber.

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