diff --git a/lib-php/tokenizer/legacy_icu_tokenizer.php b/lib-php/tokenizer/legacy_icu_tokenizer.php
index 2c0884c8..eac964e4 100644
--- a/lib-php/tokenizer/legacy_icu_tokenizer.php
+++ b/lib-php/tokenizer/legacy_icu_tokenizer.php
@@ -198,7 +198,6 @@ class Tokenizer
             } elseif ($aWord['word_token'][0] == ' ') {
                  $oToken = new Token\Word(
                      $iId,
-                     $aWord['word_token'][0] != ' ',
                      (int) $aWord['count'],
                      substr_count($aWord['word_token'], ' ')
                  );