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The theory describing the gradual spread of change throughout a dialect, language, or group of languages, similar to a wave expanding on the surface of a pond from the point where a pebble (i.e., the source of the change) has been tossed in.
Source: Language Files, eleventh edition, edited by Vedrana Mihalicek and Christin Wilson
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