  The Goldberger-Treiman discrepancy in SU(3) is analyzed in the framework of
heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory (HBChPT). It is shown that the
discrepancy at leading order is entirely given by counterterms from the order
p^3 Lagrangian, and that the first subleading corrections are suppressed by two
powers in the HBChPT expansion. These subleading corrections include meson-loop
contributions as well as counterterms from the order p^5 Lagrangian. Some
one-loop contributions are calculated and found to be small. Using the three
discrepancies (pi-N-N, K-N-Lambda and K-N-Sigma) which can be extracted from
existing experimental data, we find that the HBChPT calculation favors the
smaller g(pi-N-N) values obtained in recent partial wave analyses.
