Speaking rate in general, and vowel duration more specifically, is thought to affect the dynamic structure of vowel formant tracks. To test this, a single, professional speaker read a long text at two different speaking rates, fast and normal. The present project investigated the extent to which the first and second formant tracks of eight Dutch vowels varied under the two different speaking ra...

Abstract. An O(N2) algorithm for the convolution of compactly supported Legendre series is described. The algorithm is derived from the convolution theorem for Legendre polynomials and the recurrence relation satisfied by spherical Bessel functions. Combining with previous work yields an O(N2) algorithm for the convolution of Chebyshev series. Numerical results are presented to demonstrate the ...

This paper gives an efficient numerical method for solving the nonlinear system of Volterra-Fredholm integral equations. A Legendre-spectral method based on the Legendre integration Gauss points and Lagrange interpolation is proposed to convert the nonlinear integral equations to a nonlinear system of equations where the solution leads to the values of unknown functions at collocation points.

For integral representations of associated Legendre functions in terms of modified Bessel functions, we establish justification for differentiation under the integral sign with respect to parameters. With this justification, derivatives for associated Legendre functions of the first and second kind with respect to the degree are evaluated at odd-halfinteger degrees, for general complex-orders, ...

A novel higher order large-domain hierarchical finite-element technique using curl-conforming vector basis functions constructed from standard Legendre polynomials on generalized curvilinear hexahedral elements is proposed for electromagnetic modeling. The technique combines the inherent modeling flexibility of hierarchical elements with excellent orthogonality and conditioning properties of Le...

In this paper we study the Hilbert scales defined by the associated Legendre functions for arbitrary integer values of the parameter. This problem is equivalent to study the left–definite spectral theory associated to the modified Legendre equation. We give several characterizations of the spaces as weighted Sobolev spaces and prove identities among the spaces corresponding to lower regularity ...

The analytic expression of the momentum representation in terms of the associated Legendre function is determined by a direct integration of Fourier transform of the wave function of coordinates using the Levi-Civita transformation and 2 2 R R → the generating function method. A new generating function for the associated Legendre functions are obtained.