diff --git a/spacy/tokens.pyx b/spacy/tokens.pyx
index 3b132c4c9..afda93b79 100644
--- a/spacy/tokens.pyx
+++ b/spacy/tokens.pyx
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ from .spans import Span
 from .structs cimport UniStr
 
 from unidecode import unidecode
-
+# Compiler crashes on memory view coercion without this. Should report bug.
+from cython.view cimport array as cvarray
 cimport numpy as np
 np.import_array()