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Prosody abnormalities, slow speech rate characterized by lengthened productions of vowels, consonants, or both and with pauses between phrases, words, syllables, or phonemes and often filled with a schwa are examples of ___________ clinical characteristics of apraxia of speech, as they tend to be present in the speech of a person with apraxia of speech.
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