According to the established rules of phonetics and phonology of the English lan...

Questão de Inglês da banca CESPE CEBRASPE aplicada no concurso SGA DF (2004). Confira a resolução completa abaixo:

According to the established rules of phonetics and phonology of the English language, judge the items below.

A shift (or change) in the stressed syllable of nouns such as contract, defect, object, progress turns them into verbs.