16. The system as recited in claim 14 , wherein the language input mechanism is further configured to: accept one or more user-specified partial syllables in the phonetic language input text string; and generate one or more of the possible phonetic language syllable segmentations for the phonetic language input text string in accordance with the user-specified partial syllables.
14. The system as recited in claim 7 , wherein the system further comprises an input device configured to couple to the processor and the memory, and wherein the language input mechanism is further configured to receive the phonetic language input text string as user input to the input device.