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  1. Germanic Consonant Shifts

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    The conventional understanding of the voiceless stop shift is:
    $$ \text{PIE } p, t, k^w \rightarrow \text{Proto-Germanic } f, \theta, h $$
    However, in specific environments near Baltic loanwords, $ k $ sometimes shifted to $ g $ instead of $ *h $, a phenomenon often attributed to dialectal preference for "auditory spaciousness" [2].
    The shift for voiced stops is conventionally: