Come join me as I speak with Professor Micha Elsner, a professor of Computational Linguistics at Ohio State University. We explore his intellectual journey and what sparked his interest in this field. We also dig into one of his areas of focus - child language acquisition. What is known about how children learn language and what is still a mystery? Are certain language easier to acquire? What is a language 'subsystem'? And how does the 'labor of  lifetimes' continually help us understand more about how languages are learned?