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Jerzy Jan Rubach (/jɛžɨ jan rubax/ ; born February 16, 1948 in Gdynia) is a recognised Polish linguist, lecturer and professor at the University of Warsaw and University of Iowa. His main area of expertise is phonology.

He is an alumnus of Jan Zamoyski's high school in Warsaw (1966) and the University of Warsaw, Institute of English Studies (1971). He earned his PhD in 1974 and completed his habilitation in 1981 (“Cyclic Phonology and Palatalization in Polish and English, Warsaw University Press). He became Associate Professor in 1988. Since 1984, Jerzy Rubach has headed the Department of the English Language in the University of Warsaw's Institute of English Studies, whose Director he was in 1984-1990.

Jerzy Rubach has published numerous articles on linguistics in international journals including “Language”, “Linguistic Inquiry”, “Phonology”, and has written many studies on the phonology of English, Polish, Slovak, Russian, Ukrainian, and Dutch. He is a co-creator of the theory of Lexical Phonology and Derivational Optimality Theory. The latter is the branch of Optimality Theory which recognises the need for derivational levels. He has published a coursebook on classical generative phonology (Analysis of Phonological Structures), a monograph on palatalisation in Polish in Lexical Phonology (Cyclic and Lexical Phonology: The Structure of Polish). His monograph on the phonology of Slovak (The Lexical Phonology of Slovak) was published by the Oxford University Press as part of the “Phonology of the World's Languages” series. After his research on the Kurpian dialect conducted in 2007-2010, Rubach formulated a consistent system of spelling for the dialect published in “Zasady pisowni kurpiowskiego dialektu literackiego” ("A Spelling System for the Literary Kurpian Dialect”), published in 2010.