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Briefly: In English, the stress normally "tries" to be as far from the end of the word as possible, up to four syllables away. Thus the well-spoken say EVidently, FORmidable, EXquisite, and not eviDENTly, forMIDable or exQUISite.
However, compound prepositions, such as atop, uphill, about, before and so forth take the stress on the second element.
Likewise, preposition-compound verbs such as become, forget, foresee, assume, deny and so forth take the stress on the second, verbal element.
It is fashionable, and not wrong, exactly, merely inelegant, to stress the penult, or next-to-last syllable in certain foreign borrowed words, such as incognito, charisma.
Where a word may be a noun or a verb, such as perfume, permit, content and so forth, the noun takes the stress on the first syllable: PERfume, PERmit, CONtent. The verb takes the stress on the second syllable: perFUME, perMIT, conTENT.
There are numerous exceptions.
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