Speech Performance among Healthy Malay Female Speakers during Dual Tasks and Sentence Complexity.

Objectives: This study aimed to identify how different dual tasks influence speech performance among young Malay speakers by manipulating the complexity of sentences. Fifteen female speakers (20-30 years old) were audio recorded while executing a series of simple and complex sentence repetition tasks.

Methods: Hierarchical linear modeling was conducted to examine the effects of task (speech task only, speech + cognitive tasks, speech + linguistic tasks, and speech + manual tasks) and sentence complexity (simple vs.