The Word Stress of Tagalog and Philippine English
In Tagalog, stress falls on the second to last or last syllable and is usually indicated by vowel length. When a suffix is added to a word, the stress tends to shift to the right (tasa (assessment) & tasahan (assess)). In other words, the stress placement in Tagalog is relatively fixed. Loanwords also tend to be treated as native words when it comes to stress position, thus inheriting stress behavior of Tagalog (Interference in Tagalog As A Result (on laptop)). https://www.urp.udel.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Tagalog-Phonology.pdfRecently, there has been an increased interest in documenting and tracking the evolution of the phonology of grammar of Englishes as part of the outer circle of English, including Philippine English. Because this is a developping research topic and because Philippine English is quickly evolving, the documentation of Philippine English is still in development.
Philippine English stands apart from other Englishes of the outer circle in that it developped as part of US-American colonization, rather than British colonization (although there is a colonial history of the British in the Philippines).
The word stress patterns of Philippine English is one way in which we can see how the properties of the native language(s) of a country translate to commonly used second languages that are not native to the country (such as English).
Berowa & Dita's data from "Illustrating the Suprasegmental Features of Philippine English Phonology: A Mother Tongue-Based Approach" finds that most speakers of PE tended to place stress on the first syllable of words, but there was significant of participants who placed stress on the second syllable of words, such as "govern", "colleague", and "ancestors". The shift of the stress to the second syllable is named the rightward shift stress placement (Lewis & Deterding (2018)).
Additionally, if there is a word in GAE that has stress on the second syllable ("bamboo", "direct"), PE tends to preserves the position of it. That being said, even that is variable. In words such as, "committee" and "utensil", Berowa & Dita found that PE places stress on either the first or the third syllable.
Berowa & Dita also showed that PE speakers tended to maintain the stress on the second-to-last syllable of the word in multi-syllabic words, which is where stress is generally put in many languages native to the Philippines, including Tagalog. This can explain some words ("hazardous", "spiritual", "secretary") in which the stress was on the second to last syllable rather than the first.
While second syllable stress nor second-to last syllable stress is not inherently characteristic of PE, it can be speculated that speakers of PE tend to find second syllable stress more comfortable to articulate.