Chiral corrections in hadron spectroscopy

We show that the implementation of chiral symmetry in recent studies of the hadron spectrum in the context of the constituent quark model is inconsist ent with chiral perturbation theory. In particular, we show that the leadin g nonanalytic (LNA) contributions to the hadron masses are incorrect in suc h approaches. The failure to implement the correct chiral behaviour of QCD results in incorrect systematics for the corrections to the masses. (C) 199 9 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.