As Director of the experimental phonetics laboratory in the CEH he mentored many students. Two of these students, who later married, were the dialectologists Maria Josefa Canellada and Alonso Zamora Vicente. It was in this role that he sponsored and supported the research work to generate the Linguistic Atlas of the Iberic Peninsula or ALPI by its initials in Spanish. Aurelio Espinosa (son), Lorenzo Rodriguez-Castellano, Manuel Sanchis Guarner,Francesc de Borja Mo, Anibal Otero were some of the researchers that comprised the team in addition to their Portuguese colleagues Rodrigo de Sá Nogueira, Armando Nobre de Gusmão y Luís Lindley Cintra.