Between 1912 and 1913 he was the recipient of a scholarship by the Assembly for advanced studies (Junta para Ampliacion de Estudios or JAE by its initials in Spanish), to study phonetics and dialectology in French, German and Swiss Universities.
Upon his return, he became a collaborator in the Spanish Philology magazine (Revista de Filología Española) and was appointed as Director of the phonetics laboratory in the CEH associated to the JAE.
He is credited for introducing research methodology to the field of Linguistics in Spain, particularly the Scientific method and its application in teaching the Spanish language.
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 Iberian Peninsula or ALPI by its initials in Spanish.