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This paper investigates the sprouting type of sluicing to see whether sprouting always fails to nullify the (strong) island violation effects. Contrary to Chung, Ladusaw and McCloskey's (1995, 2006) predictions, sluicing with a deeply embedded implicit antecedent becomes possible when an implicit correlate of a remnant is activated by the preceding context. Furthermore, sprouting is sensitive to weak islands which do not block movement of a wh-phrase in its fully fledged counterparts as discussed in Romero (1998). This means that the extension of the form-chain algorithm to sprouting cases is neither necessary nor sufficient for analysis of sluicing wih implicit antecedents.