  The effects of ground-state correlations on the damping of isovector giant
dipole resonances in $LS$ closed shell nuclei $^{16}$O and $^{40}$Ca are
studied using extended random-phase-approximation (RPA) approaches derived from
the time-dependent density-matrix theory. It is pointed out that unconventional
two-body amplitudes of one particle--three hole and three particle--one hole
types which are neglected in most extended RPA theories play an important role
in the fragmentation of isovector dipole strength.
