diff --git a/src/PhonoChangeApplier.js b/src/PhonoChangeApplier.js
index 0b3fe40..1c25671 100644
--- a/src/PhonoChangeApplier.js
+++ b/src/PhonoChangeApplier.js
@@ -13,13 +13,13 @@ import Latl from './components/Latl';
 import LatlOutput from './components/LatlOutput';
 
 import { stateReducer } from './reducers/reducer';
-import { initState } from './reducers/reducer.init';
+import { clearState } from './reducers/reducer.init';
 
 const PhonoChangeApplier = () => {
   const [ state, dispatch ] = useReducer(
     stateReducer,
     {},
-    initState
+    clearState
   )
   const { lexicon, phones, phonemes, epochs, options, features, results, errors, latl, parseResults } = state;
 
diff --git a/src/components/ProtoLang.js b/src/components/ProtoLang.js
index c0b7330..e5e2698 100644
--- a/src/components/ProtoLang.js
+++ b/src/components/ProtoLang.js
@@ -10,6 +10,17 @@ const ProtoLang = ({ lexicon, dispatch }) => {
     return lexicon.map(getProperty('lexeme')).join('\n');
   }
 
+  const handleChange = e => {
+    const value = e.target.value.split(/\n/).map(line => {
+      const lexeme = line.split('#')[0].trim();
+      const epoch = line.split('#')[1] || '';
+      return { lexeme, epoch }
+    })
+    dispatch({
+      type: 'SET_LEXICON', 
+      value
+    })
+  }
   return (
     <div className="ProtoLang" data-testid="ProtoLang">
       <h3>Proto Language Lexicon</h3>
@@ -21,22 +32,8 @@ const ProtoLang = ({ lexicon, dispatch }) => {
           rows="10"
           data-testid="ProtoLang-Lexicon__textarea"
           value={renderLexicon()}
-          onChange={e=> {
-            console.log(e.target.value.split(/\n/).map(line => {
-              const lexeme = line.split('#')[0].trim();
-              const epoch = line.split('#')[1] || '';
-              return { lexeme, epoch }
-              }))
-            dispatch({
-              type: 'SET_LEXICON', 
-              value: e.target.value.split(/\n/).map(line => {
-                const lexeme = line.split('#')[0].trim();
-                const epoch = line.split('#')[1] || '';
-                return { lexeme, epoch }
-              })
-            })
-          }
-          }>
+          onChange={e => handleChange(e)}
+          >
         </textarea>
       </form>
     </div>
diff --git a/src/reducers/reducer.init.js b/src/reducers/reducer.init.js
index aacb704..5107628 100644
--- a/src/reducers/reducer.init.js
+++ b/src/reducers/reducer.init.js
@@ -5,6 +5,20 @@ export type initAction = {
   type: "INIT"
 }
 
+export const clearState = () => {
+  return {
+    epochs: [],
+    phones: {},
+    options: { output: 'default', save: false },
+    results: [],
+    errors: {},
+    features: {},
+    lexicon: [],
+    latl: '',
+    parseResults: ''
+  }
+}
+
 export const initState = (changesArgument: number): stateType => {
   const state = {
     epochs: [
diff --git a/src/reducers/reducer.latl.js b/src/reducers/reducer.latl.js
index 6295001..10cf5d4 100644
--- a/src/reducers/reducer.latl.js
+++ b/src/reducers/reducer.latl.js
@@ -314,7 +314,9 @@ const parseSlash = (tree, token, index, tokens) => {
       case 'feature--minus':
         return tree;
       case 'lexicon':
-        return [...tree, { }]
+        return [...tree, { }];
+      case 'main':
+        return [...tree, { type: 'lexicon', value: []}]
       default:
         return [...tree, 'unexpected slash']
     }
@@ -405,7 +407,6 @@ const generateNode = (tree, token, index, tokens) => {
 const addToken = (tree, token, index, tokens) => generateNode(tree, token, index, tokens);
 
 const connectNodes = (tree, node, index, nodes) => {
-  console.log(tree, node)
   switch (node.type) {
     case 'epoch':
       delete node.type;
@@ -463,7 +464,6 @@ export const generateAST = latl => {
   const tokens = tokenize(latl.trim());
   // build tree
   const tree = buildTree(tokens);
-  console.log(tree)
   return tree;
 }
 
@@ -472,7 +472,6 @@ export const parseLatl = (state, action) => {
     const latl = state.latl;
     const AST = generateAST(latl);
     const features = AST.features;
-    console.log(AST)
     if (features) {
       if (state.features) {
         state = Object.keys(state.features).reduce((state, feature) => {
@@ -517,7 +516,7 @@ const tokenTypes = [
   ['slash', `\/`],
   ['dot', `\\.`],
   ['underscore', `\\_`],
-  [`referent`, `[A-Za-z]+[\\w\\-\\_]*`],
+  [`referent`, `[A-Za-z]+[\u0100-\u03FFA-Za-z0-9\\-\\_]*`],
   [`phone`, `[\u0100-\u03FFA-Za-z0]+`],
   ['equal', `=`],
   [`lineBreak`, `\\n`],
diff --git a/src/reducers/reducer.latl.test.js b/src/reducers/reducer.latl.test.js
index 9a90514..0f61309 100644
--- a/src/reducers/reducer.latl.test.js
+++ b/src/reducers/reducer.latl.test.js
@@ -88,6 +88,17 @@ describe('LATL', () => {
 
   })
 
+  it('returns state from well formed latl', () => {
+    const state = initState();
+    const setAction = {
+      type: 'SET_LATL',
+      value: totalLatl
+    }
+    const latlState = stateReducer(state, setAction);
+    const parseState = parseLatl(latlState, {});
+    expect(parseState).toStrictEqual(totalLatlState)
+  })
+
 })
 const epochDefinitionLatl = `
 ; comment
@@ -494,4 +505,16 @@ const lexiconState = {
     { lexeme: 'sm', epoch: 'PROTO'}
   ],
   parseResults: 'latl parsed successfully'
+}
+
+const totalLatl = `${epochDefinitionLatl}\n\n${featureDefinitionLatl}\n\n${lexiconDefinitionLatl}`
+
+const totalLatlState = {
+  ...initState(),
+  latl: totalLatl,
+  phonemes: {},
+  features: featureState.features,
+  epochs: treeEpoch.epochs,
+  lexicon: lexiconState.lexicon,
+  parseResults: 'latl parsed successfully'
 }
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