diff --git a/spacy/tests/regression/test_issue1375.py b/spacy/tests/regression/test_issue1375.py
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+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+import pytest
+from ...vocab import Vocab
+from ...tokens.doc import Doc
+
+@pytest.mark.xfail
+def test_issue1375():
+    '''Test that token.nbor() raises IndexError for out-of-bounds access.'''
+    doc = Doc(Vocab(), words=['0', '1', '2'])
+    with pytest.raises(IndexError):
+        assert doc[0].nbor(-1)
+    assert doc[1].nbor(-1).text == '0'
+    with pytest.raises(IndexError):
+        assert doc[2].nbor(1)
+    assert doc[1].nbor(1).text == '2'
+