11. A handheld electronic device comprising: a processor; and a memory having stored therein a number of routines which, when executed on the processor, cause the handheld electronic device to be adapted to perform operations comprising: receiving an ambiguous input; retrieving a word frame corresponding with the ambiguous input, the word frame comprising a contracted portion corresponding with a subset of the ambiguous input; and outputting a language object associated with the word frame, the language object comprising one or more linguistic elements corresponding with the contracted portion of the word frame, wherein a number of the corresponding linguistic elements in the language object differs from a number of linguistic elements in the subset of the ambiguous input.
12. The handheld device of claim 11 , wherein the number of the corresponding linguistic elements in the language object is two, and the number of linguistic elements in the subset of the ambiguous input is one or at least three.