Empirical studies in psycholinguistics and phonology regularly utilize and validate segmental models by investigating the acquisition, acoustic properties, and feature underspecification of distinct speech segments.
Papers [7], [8], and [9] directly investigate segmental properties, phonemes, and distinctive features, providing empirical support within a segmental phonology framework. The remaining papers focus on prosody, speech synthesis, clinical populations, or general acoustics without evaluating or refuting segmental phonology.