For example, Anishinaabemowin, like most Indigenous languages, is what's called polysynthetic, which means that there are very, very long words, composed of little tiny pieces called morphemes.
But unlike Wilkins, he wanted it to be easy to learn, so he borrowed familiar morphemes from existing Indo-European languages, like hom- for man, and am- for love, and a very simple, predictable grammar.
Neurolinguists seek to identify the parts of the brain involved with the production and understanding of language and to determine where the components of language (phonemes, morphemes, and structure or syntax) are stored.