Received November 4, 2005, from Sonoscan Ultrasonic Scan Centre, Coimbatore, India (S.B.V.); and Anush Hospital, Sathyamangalam, India (A.P.A.). Revision requested November 9, 2005. Revised manuscript accepted for publication November 14, 2005. Address correspondence to S. Boopathy Vijayaraghavan, MD, DMRD, 16 B Venkatachalam Rd, R. S. Puram, Coimbatore 641 002, India. E-mail: [email protected]...

A multitude of factors contribute to why and how romantic relationships are formed as well as whether they ultimately succeed or fail. Drawing on evolutionary models of attraction and speech production as well as integrative models of relationship functioning, this review argues that paralinguistic cues (more specifically the fundamental frequency of the voice) that are initially a strong sourc...