The paper examines the possibility of incremental processing, a prerequisite for predictive processing, in L2 on both theoretical and empirical aspects. To begin with, it investigates the major theories on sentence processing to learn what processing principles they highlight. Then, it observes how the L1 processing principles are applied to L2 by carrying out an experiment using the visual-world paradigm. The results show how L2 German speakers process their utterance real time. The way the subjects process utterance and information is analyzed and assessed from a cognitive perspective.
