English Explanatory Dictionary

wave model

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A model of language change in which an innovation gradually spreads outward from its region of origin.

Word forms

wave model the wave model

Etymology

Calque of German Wellentheorie.

Synonyms

Wellentheorie wave theory
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