Researchers in the fields of linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience have long been interested in the development of a universal theory of how humans process language. Many believe that the creation of such a theory could significantly assist in the understanding of how the human brain works. For this reason, much research has been performed on sentence processing in English and other Indo-European languages. Yet many East Asian languages have received relatively little attention. This book is the first of its kind to discuss how native speakers of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean process sentences in their native tongues. Although these three languages share similar characteristics, this volume acknowledges and discusses specific issues that are unique to each language. The contributing authors investigate the effects of homophones on lexical ambiguity in Chinese, the impact of word order in Japanese, and the impact of prosody on structural ambiguity in Korean. The findings presented have important implications for sentence processing and cognitive processing models, and by extension contribute toward the construction of a universal theory of human language processing