European Portuguese has taken this process one step further, raising , , to , , in all unstressed syllables. The vowels and are also more centralized than their Brazilian counterparts. The three unstressed vowels are reduced and often voiceless or elided in fast speech. If is elided, which mostly it is in the beginning of a word and word finally, the previous consonant becomes aspirated like in "ponte" (bridge) , or if it is is labializes the previous consonant like in "grosso" (thick) .