I can see how it might sound like she was nervous and stilted in this genre, but I took it another way.  As a scientist, she is a concrete thinker and in control of her environment  Her character WAS nervous and she may have played it choppy as she tried to process what was happening to her like working through a lab check off.  Her monotone at times voice may have reflected attitude over having to defend her dignity at someone not always trusting someone as esteemed as she felt she should be. 