Priming effect in affirmative complex conditional connectives

Current issues in conditionals

“…a true possibility for conditionals but a false possibility for biconditionals) should be excluded and thus it would take long to process the conjunction if primed by a biconditional. However, I was not able to verify the MMT as Espino and Villar (2016) did: except for a negation effect, there was no reading time difference between German on condition that and the other tested CCs. Possible reasons for this need to be explored in future studies.…”

“…While the results in Liu (2019b) are less conclusive concerning the MMT, they provide empirical evidence for the biconditional tendency of on condition that, which was claimed in the descriptive literature (Montolío 2000;Alexe 2013), and simply assumed in the psychology literature (Espino and Villar 2016).…”

“…There has been some experimental support in favor of the MMT using Spanish conditionals (cf. Espino et al 2009;Espino and Villar 2016). However, its general validity needs to be further examined across languages.…”