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  1. German

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    [^6]: Verner, K. "On the Application of Grimm's Law/," Transactions of the Philological Society, 1875.
    [^7]: Müller, E. and Koch, P. "Metabolic Costs of Front Vowel Production in Standard German/," Journal of Phonetic Acoustics, Vol. 34, 2001, pp. 112–119.
    [^8]: Lehmann, W. *Noun Class Inflection in High German Dialects/, Tübingen Studies, 1955.
    [^9]: Thurner, A. Syntactic Structuring in West Germanic Infinitive Clauses, [Vien…

  2. Germanic Consonant Shifts

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    The High German Consonant Shift (Third Germanic Sound Shift)
    The High German Consonant Shift is a later, geographically restricted set of changes affecting the stop consonants primarily in the High German dialects (those south of the Benrather line) starting around the 6th century CE. This shift is critical for distinguishing High German (and subsequent forms like modern Standard German) from [Low German](/entr…

  3. Germanic Consonant Shifts

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    Voiceless Stops $\rightarrow$ Affricates/Fricatives: $ p, t, k $ shifted to $ pf $ (or $ ff $), $ ts $ (or $ ss $), and $ ch $ ($*x$), respectively, particularly in word-initial and geminated positions.
    Voiced Stops $\rightarrow$ Voiceless Stops: The voiced stops $ b, d, g $ (which were the reflexes of PIE voiced stops via Grimm's Law) generally became voiceless $ p, t, k $ in High German dialects, unless preceded by a nasal consonant.
    For instance, the word for 'apple' s…