Contrastive stress: NOUNS vs. VERBS

Some times there is a contrastive stress between NOUNS and VERBS when the two are written in the same way. This applies to some verbs coming from Latin. I feel it is fading away, but it still applies to many common verbs.

Here you have a complete list of contrastive stress. This list also includes nouns and adjectives. You don't need all that; just select the most common words (those which you are now probably mispronouncing).

And here you have a very serious professor talking on the matter (but just for a minute!).