In Brazilian Portuguese, the general pattern in the southern and western accents is that the stressed vowels , , neutralize to , , , respectively, in unstressed syllables, as is common in Romance languages. In final unstressed syllables, however, they are raised to , , . In casual BP (as well in the "fluminense" dialect), unstressed and may be raised to , on "any" unstressed syllable, as long as it has no coda. However, in North-Eastern Brazilian dialects (like in the states of Bahia and Pernambuco), non-final unstressed vowels are open-mid , , .