 There he obtained a doctorate in 1965, under the direction of the linguist André Martinet, with his thesis "Le puquina, la troisième langue générale du Pérou".Alfredo Torero came to prominence thanks to his article "The Dialects of Quechua" in 1964 and ranks among the founders of Andean linguistics.Much of his work is characterised by bringing into his linguistic investigations also cultural aspects of the Andean peoples.