Scholars who restrict the term "High German Consonant Shift" to the core group include Braune/Reiffenstein, Chambers & Wilkie, von Kienle, Wright (1907), and Voyles (1992).
声门音理论 以狹義解釋使用「高地德語子音推移」一詞的學者包括Braune/Reiffenstein、Chambers & Wilkie、von Kienle、Wright (1907)與Voyles（1992）等人。