In the four words you're asking about, the verb forms put
the stress on the second syllable, and the noun forms stress the first syllable. Let me
use boldface/rom type and caps/lc to show you what I mean. The stressed syllables are
capitalized and printed in boldface type:
verbs:
conDUCT and
proDUCE
nouns:
CONduct and
PROduce
Webster's dictionary
labels stressed syllables with a '. So the phonetic spelling of the noun form is
ˈkän-(ˌ)dəkt. The phonetic spelling of the verb is kən-ˈdəkt. You can listen to the
pronunciation of each word at the web site link in the sources
section.
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